TY - JOUR
AU - Moellendorf, Darrel
AB - Defenders of duties of justice to compatriots sometimes criticize the aspirations of cosmopolitans to develop accounts of justic e that are global in scope. The criticisms are many and varied, including in particular concerns about whether cosmopolitanism can allow for appropriate patriotic regard for fellow-citizens, whether cosmopolitanism can allow for the political self-determination of states, and whether cosmopolitanism can account for the basis of duties of justic e absent the existence of political communities. These are important debates and their existence seems to me fully pre­ dictable for two main reasons. One is that the tradition of theorizing about justice within the state is long, rich, and sophisticated. It contains many important moral insights that ought not to be neglected. The other is that the global association, in contrast to the state, is merely emergent. Its in­ stitutions are many but they are comparatively weak and less comprehensive. I take it that both the rich tradition of political philosophy and the state of the world lay a certain burden of proof—if one can use term proof in the context of political philosophy—on cosmopolitans to account for the revisions to the theory of justice that they believe are warranted. Of 
TI - Cosmopolitanism and Compatriot Duties
JO - The Monist
DO - 10.5840/monist201194427
DA - 2011-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/cosmopolitanism-and-compatriot-duties-uK6MNXVoU8
SP - 535
EP - 554
VL - 94
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -