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Rights, Boundaries, and the Bonds of Community: A Qualified Defense of Moral Parochialism

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One effect of the cosmopolitan turn in recent political philosophy is that widely held beliefs and intuitions are being called into question. My purpose here is to scrutinize one of these beliefs—that we should attend to the needs of our compatriots before the needs of the foreigners—from the perspective of a rights-based theory. After sketching a theory that takes the right of autonomy as its cornerstone, I consider four arguments that might support the intuition that compatriots take priority. Only one of the four is sound, I conclude, and even this argument, the argument from reciprocity, supports the intuition only in a highly qualified form.

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  • Dagger, Richard, 1985. "Rights, Boundaries, and the Bonds of Community: A Qualified Defense of Moral Parochialism," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 79(2), pages 436-447, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:79:y:1985:i:02:p:436-447_22
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