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43Solidarity, equality, and freedom in Pettit’s republicanismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (6): 644-651. 2015.This article discusses Pettit’s views of social justice and political legitimacy in On the People’s Terms. Although Pettit’s book presents a powerful account of the ideal of nondomination, this article probes some deficiencies regarding important questions about solidarity, equality, and feasibility.
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1697Global Justice and Poverty Relief in Nonideal CircumstancesSocial Theory and Practice 34 (3): 411-438. 2008.
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379Kant and the Claims of the PoorPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 81 (2): 382-418. 2010.Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them? If these positive duties exist, are they strong and strict demands or are they weak and discretionary? Can we say that at least some positive duties of assistance are also duties of justice worthy of institutionalization and coercive enforcement by legal institutions? Can the scope of some of such duties be cosmopolitan or should all of them be circumscribed to what we owe to our…Read more
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487This is a revised version of a Licenciatura Thesis (defended at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1997).
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54Book Review of C. Beitz and R. Goodin eds., *Global Basic Rights* (review)Ethics 121 (1): 178-182. 2010.
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81The substantive dimension of deliberative practical rationalityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (2): 185-210. 2005.The aim of this paper is to propose a model for understanding the relation between substance and procedure in discourse ethics and deliberative democracy capable of answering the common charge that they involve an ‘empty formalism’. The expressive-elaboration model introduced here answers this concern by arguing that the deliberative practical rationality presupposed by discourse ethics and deliberative democracy involves the creation of a practical medium in which certain general basic ideas of…Read more
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729The Human Right to Democracy and the Pursuit of Global JusticeIn Thom Brooks (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice, Oxford University Press. pp. 279-301. 2020.
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163Is There a Human Right to Democracy? A Response to Joshua CohenRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofía Política 1 (2): 1-37. 2012.Is democracy a human right? There is a growing consensus within international legal and political practice that the answer is “Yes.” However, some philosophers doubt that we should see democracy as a human right. In this paper I respond to the most systematic challenge presented so far, which was recently offered by Joshua Cohen. His challenge is directed to the view that democracy is a human right, not to the view that democracy is part of what justice demands. It is instructive because it forc…Read more
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
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