Global Luck Egalitarianism

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Global luck egalitarianism is a view about distributive justice at the international level associated with cosmopolitan moral theory. It starts from the basic intuition that it is a bad thing for some people to be worse off than others through no fault of their own, and applies this across borders. Global luck egalitarians characteristically believe that moral agents may have duties to mitigate the brute luck of distant others.

[edit] References

• Darrel Moellendorf, Cosmopolitan Justice. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2002.
• Kok-Chor Tan, Justice without Borders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Pablo Gilabert ‘The Duty to Eradicate Global Poverty: Positive or Negative?’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 7: 537−550 (2005).
• Christian Schemmel, ‘On the Usefulness of Luck Egalitarian Arguments for Global Justice’, Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 1 (2008).
• Alexander Brown, ‘Are There Any Global Egalitarian Rights?’, Human Rights Review, 9/4 (2008).