Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives - Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics

Commendation Quotes: This is an excellent volume on an important subject. A number of very highly respected contributors bring a range of perspectives to bear on several carefully framed questions related to boundaries. The book will interest a large number of people, in ethical and political philosophy, international law, political science, and international relations. It is an important contribution to the debate over boundaries and does the rare service of bringing together a wide variety of ethical traditions to bear on the issue. Review Quotes: "[This] collection of essays is very rich in ideas and in implications. It explores a vital set of questions and ethical concepts. The book leaves me wanting more such volumes that explore the boundaries of justice from varied ethical perspectives."--Dana W. Wilbanks, "Journal of the American Academy of Religion" Review Quotes: ÝThis¨ collection of essays is very rich in ideas and in implications. It explores a vital set of questions and ethical concepts. The book leaves me wanting more such volumes that explore the boundaries of justice from varied ethical perspectives. -- Dana W. Wilbanks "Journal of the American Academy of Religion"Review Quotes: [This] collection of essays is very rich in ideas and in implications. It explores a vital set of questions and ethical concepts. The book leaves me wanting more such volumes that explore the boundaries of justice from varied ethical perspectives.--Dana W. Wilbanks "Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Commendation Quotes: The subject of this book is an extremely important one. The treatments are good, and the whole is considerably more than its parts. I strongly recommend it. Review Quotes:[This] collection of essays is very rich in ideas and in implications. It explores a vital set of questions and ethical concepts. The book leaves me wanting more such volumes that explore the boundaries of justice from varied ethical perspectives.--Dana W. Wilbanks "Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index; Cloth avail. @ $55.00. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix Introduction by David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi 3 Chapter One: Christian Attitudes toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical by Richard B. Miller 15 Chapter Two: The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries by Nigel Biggar 38 Chapter Three: Toward a Liberal Theory of National Boundaries by Loren Lomasky 55 Chapter Four: Hard Borders, Compensation, and Classical Liberalism by Hillel Steiner 79 Chapter Five: Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism by Joseph Chan 89 Chapter Six: Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought by Michael Nylan 112 Chapter Seven: International Law, Boundaries, and Imagination by Robert McCorquodale 136 Chapter Eight: Territorial Sovereignty: Command, Title, and the Expanding Claims of the Commons by Raul C. Pangalangan 164 Chapter Nine: Islamic Perspectives on Territorial Boundaries and Autonomy by M. Raquibuz Zaman 183 Chapter Ten: Religion and the Maintenance of Boundaries: An Islamic View by Sulayman Nyang 203 Chapter Eleven: Land and People: One Jewish Perspective by David Novak 213 Chapter Twelve: Contested Boundaries: Judaic Visions of a Shared World by Noam J. Zohar 237 Chapter Thirteen: Territorial Boundaries: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective by Will Kymlicka 249 Chapter Fourteen: Group Boundaries, Individual Barriers by Russell Hardin 276 Chapter Fifteen: Boundaries, Ownership, and Autonomy: A Natural Law Perspective by Joseph Boyle 296 Chapter Sixteen: In Defense of Reasonable Lines: Natural Law from a Natural Rights Perspective by Jeremy Rabkin 317 Chapter Seventeen: The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments by Daniel Philpott 335 Index 361Publisher Marketing: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Miller, David David Miller is a former member of the armed services and has more than 40 books on modern weapons, defence affairs, warfare and military history to his credit. He is a former staff member of the respected International Defense Review, and is editor of a Jane's military directory. Contributor Bio:  Hashmi, Sohail H Sohail H. Hashmi is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College.