How Global Is Global Justice? Towards a Global Philosophy

Global justice as a field must confront a central problem: how global is global justice ? A defining feature about the burgeoning literature in global justice is its operation within a bounded, philosophical tradition. Global justice research is too often a product of one tradition in self-isolation from others that nonetheless claims to speak for what is best for all. This criticism applies to various philosophical traditions whether so-called ‘analytic’, ‘Continental’ or others. The problem is that each tradition too often works independently from others to construct new ideas about the promotion of global justice: these ideas are designed by some for application to all. ‘Global’ justice may have an international reach, but it too often lacks a more global character. The development of a more global approach to global justice raises several vexing questions. What does it mean to have a ‘global’ approach to global justice? How ‘global’ should any such approach be? And how can a coherent and compelling model for it be constructed? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.