Preface
Introduction: Distributive Justice of Our Time
Chapter 1: Social Justice within Nation States: Distributive versus Relational Egalitarianism
Section 1: Miller’s Conception of Social Justice: Three Principles
Section 2: How Miller’s Conception of Social Justice Bears on the Debate Between the Distributive and the Relational Egalitarians
Section 3: The Non-Discriminative and Discriminative Strategies of Rescuing Distributive Egalitarianism
Chapter 2: Social Justice meets Global Justice: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Section 1: Miller’s Split-Level Conception of Distributive Justice
Section 2: Three Reasons for a Split-Level Conception of Distributive Justice
Section 3: The Critique of the Metric Problem
Section 4: The Critique of the Dynamic Problem
Section 5: The Lack of Global Institutions of Citizenship
Chapter 3: Statism versus Cultural Communitarianism: What Should We Talk about When talking about Nation-States?
Section 1: Miller’s Theory of Nationality
Section 2: Habermas’s Theory of Law as the Medium between Facticity and Validity
Section 3: Examining the Three Accounts of Citizens’ Motivation to Support a Legally Institutionalized Communicative Action
Section 4: Habermas’s Constitutional Patriotism Has to Rely on Miller’s Theory of Nationality
Chapter 4: Nationality in Working: Who Am I? Who Are You? Who Are All of Us Combined?
Section 1: Miller’s Account of Nation-Building Process
Section 2: Criticisms of Miller’s Account of the Nation-Building Process
Section 3:Group Identities and Equal Respect to Co-Deliberators
Section 4: Supplementing Miller’s Account of Nation-Building with Habermas’s Idea of “Legally Institutionalized Communicative Action”
Chapter 5: Difficulty in Formulating Distributive Principles: Where Are All the Agreeable Distributive Principles?
Section 1: Miller’s Approach to Political Theory
Section 2: The Critiques of Miller’s Approach to Political Theory
Section 3: The Need for Miller’s Account of a Deliberative Democracy to Incorporate Habermas’s Conception of “Communicative Action”
Chapter 6: Communicative Action and the Way to Develop Agreeable Distributive Principles: Over and Over Again till We All Agree
Section 1: Examining the Constitutional Patriots’ Interpretation of “Communicative Action”
Section 2: Examining the Liberal Multiculturalists’ Interpretation of “Communicative Action”
Section 3: “Communicative Action” as a Solution to the Deficiency of Miller’s Approach to Political Theory
Chapter 7: Reconstructing Theories for Global Justice: The Inexorable Concern with Emotions
Section 1: The Global Justice Debate among the Cosmopolitans, the Statists and the Cultural Communitarians
Section 2: Debating the Moral Particularities of Nation-States
Chapter 8: Reconstructing the World for Global Justice: The ‘I’, ‘You’, ‘We’ in the Interconnected World of Us
Section 1: The Two Means of Justification
Section 2: Debating the Fact-Dependency of Distributive Principles
Section 3: The Argument of the Further Institutionalization of Global Citizenship
Conclusion: Towards a more Sustainable Future