Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives by David Lee Miller, ...

Princeton University Press

Boundaries and JusticeDiverse Ethical Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Sohail H. Hashmi, David Miller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691088006, 978-0691088006\nSynopsis\nDespite 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 betw.