Michael Walzer Responds

Dissent ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Walzer
Keyword(s):  
Michael Walzer

Review: Michael Walzer on War and Justice

2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 554-554
Author(s):  
Nicolas Jefferson-Lenskyj
Keyword(s):  
Michael Walzer

Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders

1987 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Carens
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Third World ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Third ◽  
Oppressed People ◽  
Open Borders ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Third World

Many poor and oppressed people wish to leave their countries of origin in the third world to come to affluent Western societies. This essay argues that there is little justification for keeping them out. The essay draws on three contemporary approaches to political theory — the Rawlsian, the Nozickean, and the utilitarian — to construct arguments for open borders. The fact that all three theories converge upon the same results on this issue, despite their significant disagreements on others, strengthens the case for open borders and reveals its roots in our deep commitment to respect all human beings as free and equal moral persons. The final part of the essay considers communitarian objections to this conclusion, especially those of Michael Walzer.

Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Moore
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Spheres Of Justice ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Different Levels

This essay examines the ideas and influence of Michael Walzer’s Spheres of Justice. It argues that Walzer’s influence on the discipline has taken a different form than many other writers on justice, such as Rawls, where the central ideas have been taken up and argued about in essentially Rawlsian terms. Walzer’s influence has operated on different levels, of which we can distinguish at least three. There is a micro level, with numerous authors picking up fruitful ideas, lines of inquiries or suggestions, found in Walzer’s work, and appropriating them or using them to pursue further arguments. There is a more general social justice level, where ideas that are central to his understanding of social justice have been appropriated by diverse thinkers, often in quite different ways. He has been also influential on a very general, methodological level, where theorists have adopted his method and style of doing political theory.

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