TY - JOUR
AU - Moellendorf, Darrel
AB -  In Global Inequality Matters I argue that respect for human dignity, expressed as foundational in various human rights documents, establishes a justificatory presumption of equality under the rules of certain kinds of associations, namely those whose members have no pre‐associational entitlements to the goods and powers produced and that generate duties of justice. I argue further that the global economy is an association of the requisite kind. By means of a long chain of inference, then, one important reason that global inequality matters is that respect for human dignity matters. I shall summarize some of the key arguments of Global Inequality Matters in this article and compare my account to the valuable accounts offered by Gillian Brock and Richard M. Miller in their recent books. Justificatory Respect and Presumptive Egalitarianism In chapter 1 I discuss an idea that is central to the egalitarian argument of the book, namely justificatory respect. Human rights documents assume that the inherent dignity of persons makes appropriate the attitude of respect; more specifically, respect of the kind that Stephen Darwall distinguishes as recognition respect: “[W]e respect something in the recognition sense when we give it standing (authority) in our relations to it.” Recognition 
TI - Why Global Inequality Matters
JO - Journal of Social Philosophy
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2010.01522.x
DA - 2011-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/why-global-inequality-matters-2M6UPTH7BK
SP - 99
VL - 42
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -