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.

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Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2021

ISBN

9780691230931

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Political Philosophy

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter One: Christian Attitudes toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical
Chapter Two: The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries
Chapter Three: Toward a Liberal Theory of National Boundaries
Chapter Four: Hard Borders, Compensation, and Classical Liberalism
Chapter Five: Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism
Chapter Six: Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought
Chapter Seven: International Law, Boundaries, and Imagination
Chapter Eight: Territorial Sovereignty: Command, Title, and the Expanding Claims of the Commons
Chapter Nine: Islamic Perspectives on Territorial Boundaries and Autonomy
Chapter Ten: Religion and the Maintenance of Boundaries: An Islamic View
Chapter Eleven: Land and People: One Jewish Perspective
Chapter Twelve: Contested Boundaries: Judaic Visions of a Shared World
Chapter Thirteen: Territorial Boundaries: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective
Chapter Fourteen: Group Boundaries, Individual Barriers
Chapter Fifteen: Boundaries, Ownership, and Autonomy: A Natural Law Perspective
Chapter Sixteen: In Defense of Reasonable Lines: Natural Law from a Natural Rights Perspective
Chapter Seventeen: The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments
Index