RT Article
T1 GLOBAL JUSTICE AFTER THE FALL Christian Realism and the “Law of Peoples”
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 33
IS 4
SP 783
OP 814
A1 Santurri, Edmund N.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2005
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/182238558X
AB In The Law of Peoples John Rawls casts his proposals as an argument against what he calls “political realism.” Here, I contend that a certain version of “Christian political realism” survives Rawls's polemic against political realism sans phrase and that Rawls overstates his case against political realism writ large. Specifically, I argue that Rawls's dismissal of “empirical political realism” is underdetermined by the evidence he marshals in support of the dismissal and that his rejection of “normative political realism” is in tension with his own normative concessions to political reality as expressed in The Law of Peoples. That is, I contend that Rawls, himself, needs some form of political realism to render persuasive the full range of normative claims constituting the argument of that work.
K1 Reinhold Niebuhr
K1 Rawls
K1 economic justice
K1 Just War
K1 democratic peace
K1 Toleration
K1 Christian realism
K1 political realism
K1 Justice
K1 International Ethics
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2005.00247.x