Boundaries and Justice
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Boundaries and Justice

Diverse Ethical Perspectives

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  2. English
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Boundaries and Justice

Diverse Ethical Perspectives

About this book

Despite the supreme political and economic significance of boundaries--and ongoing challenges to existing national boundaries--scant attention has been paid to their ethics. This volume explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and jurisdictional boundaries. It is the first book to bring together thinkers from a range of traditions, both religious and secular, to discuss the ethics of boundaries.


Each contributor represents a tradition's views on questions surrounding the use of boundaries to delimit property and political rights. What does it mean to own something? What resources should not be privately owned? What justifies the erection of political boundaries between one people and another? How ''hard'' should such boundaries be? What rights extend to minorities within a state? Should territorial boundaries coincide with social ones? Does national autonomy have an ethical basis, or is it an aspect of modern power politics? Should we aim for a more inclusive community than that afforded by modern nation-states? Cross-chapter dialogue and a substantive conclusion draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented, traditions that include Christianity, classical liberalism, Confucianism, international law, Islam, Judaism, liberal egalitarianism, and natural law.


In addition to the editors, the contributors are Nigel Biggar, Joseph Boyle, Joseph Chan, Russell Hardin, Will Kymlicka, Loren Lomasky, Robert McCorquodale, Richard B. Miller, David Novak, Sulayman Nyang, Michael Nylan, Raul C. Pangalangan, Daniel Philpott, Jeremy Rabkin, Hillel Steiner, M. Raquibuz Zaman, and Noam J. Zohar.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One: Christian Attitudes toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical
  9. Chapter Two: The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries
  10. Chapter Three: Toward a Liberal Theory of National Boundaries
  11. Chapter Four: Hard Borders, Compensation, and Classical Liberalism
  12. Chapter Five: Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism
  13. Chapter Six: Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought
  14. Chapter Seven: International Law, Boundaries, and Imagination
  15. Chapter Eight: Territorial Sovereignty: Command, Title, and the Expanding Claims of the Commons
  16. Chapter Nine: Islamic Perspectives on Territorial Boundaries and Autonomy
  17. Chapter Ten: Religion and the Maintenance of Boundaries: An Islamic View
  18. Chapter Eleven: Land and People: One Jewish Perspective
  19. Chapter Twelve: Contested Boundaries: Judaic Visions of a Shared World
  20. Chapter Thirteen: Territorial Boundaries: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective
  21. Chapter Fourteen: Group Boundaries, Individual Barriers
  22. Chapter Fifteen: Boundaries, Ownership, and Autonomy: A Natural Law Perspective
  23. Chapter Sixteen: In Defense of Reasonable Lines: Natural Law from a Natural Rights Perspective
  24. Chapter Seventeen: The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments
  25. Index