Globalization And Justice

Kumar Shivesh, Christ University

ABSTRACT

In a globalised world, essential institutional frameworks that affect our daily interactions transcend national borders. According to John Rawls' institutional approach to social justice, we have a specific need to guarantee that the fundamental parameters of these relationships are just. A global resource dividend and a Tobin tax are two recent concepts that might assist achieve this. Both of these suggestions are market-based. Others have expressed concern that globalisation would result in the homogeneity of formerly different civilizations. Yet, while globalisation accelerates cultural and social change, the trajectory of these changes is uncertain.

SINCE JOHN RAWLS' A THEORY OF JUSTICE was published in 1971, political philosophers have enthusiastically embraced normative inquiry into justice. Nonetheless, until the 1990s, most political philosophers, with a few noteworthy exceptions, limited their research to domestic justice concerns. Rawls develops standards for evaluating the institutions of "the core structure of society," and so does not consider "save in passing the justice of the law of nations and of relations between states" in A Theory of Justice (7-8). ‘In particular, Rawls makes the idealizing assumption that the society for which he is developing justice principles is "more or less self-sufficient". That has just been in the last decade or so. Political philosophers have just recently been increasingly concerned with issues of nationalism and international justice.