New Directions in Global Justice: an Agent-Principal Approach

CRISTIAN DIMITRIU

St Louis

Conferencia; APA - Central Division; 2015

American Philosophical Association

In this paper, my ambition is to highlight a problemthat the most important views in global justice have, and to propose a newdirection for research on global justice. I will organize the paper as follows.First, I will describe the two most important traditions in the global justicedebate. Following Samuel Scheffler, I will call the first one ?additive? andthe second one ?unitary?. Second, I will highlight a problem that bothtraditions have. The point I would like to make is that the global justicedebate has been structured in a way that makes the most pressing issues ofglobal justice invisible. Third, Iwill propose a different way of approaching global justice which, I believe,radically departs from the additive and unitary traditions. This new differentway, I believe, proposes the new direction that global justice debates should take.