Global Distributive Justice and Desert

A number of authors have talked about desert as a potential criterion of global distributive justice (e.g., Brock 2005, 2006, 2009; Angell 2017; Persad 2019) In places, Kant’s claims concerning justice seem to presuppose desert as a criterion of distribution (e.g., Kant, RL 6: 325-7) Some Kantian accounts of distributive justice, however, give pride of place to equality, at the expense of desert (e.g., Rawls 1971/1999). The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which Kant’s account of justice is desert-sensitive, and if at all, how such an account could be reconstructed. References Angell, K. (2019) "Territory, Desert and Global Distributive Justice", in Camilla Boisen and Matthew C. Murray (eds) Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought: Perspectives on Finding a Fair Share. London: Routledge. Brock, G. (2009) Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account. Oxford: OUP. ________ (2006) "Global Poverty and Desert", in Politics 26(3): 168-75. ________ (2005) "Global Distributive Justice, Entitlement and Desert", in Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31(1): 109-38. Kant, I. (1996) "Doctrine of Right [RL]", in Practical Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Persad, G. (2019) "Justice and Public Health", in Anna C. Mastroianni, Jeffrey P. Kahn, and Nancy E. Kass (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics. Oxford: OUP. Rawls, J. (1971/1999) A Theory of Justice. (/2nd ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.