From a Pluralism of Grounds to Proto-Legal Relations: Accounting for the Grounds of Obligations of Justice

0474679 - ÚSP 2018 RIV IT eng J - Journal Article
Pavlakos, George
From a Pluralism of Grounds to Proto-Legal Relations: Accounting for the Grounds of Obligations of Justice.
Ratio Juris. Roč. 30, č. 1 (2017), s. 59-74. ISSN 1467-9337
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Keywords : responsibility of justice * pluralism * obligation of justice * Mathias Risse
OECD category: Law

In this paper I discuss critically Mathias Risse’s paper “Responsibility and Global Justice.” First, I argue that for Risse’s pluralist account of the grounds of justice to hold together, there is need to presuppose a monist standpoint which ultimately contributes to grounding principles of justice. Second, I point out that Risse’s understanding of obligations of accountability and justification is rather narrow in that it functions as an addendum to obligations of justice. Conversely,
I will suggest that the obligation of accountability plays a deeper role: The conditions that ground it feature at the same time among the grounds of obligations of justice. Accordingly, the kind of relation that gives rise to a duty among agents to account for their actions must be in place when obligations of justice obtain. Following on from these remarks I will adumbrate an alternative account of the relation which grounds (enforceable) obligations of justice.
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