1st Edition

Global Justice for Children A Capability Approach

By Gottfried Schweiger Copyright 2026
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

While global justice is a hot topic in political philosophy, the place of children and children as a particular group of agents has been largely ignored. This book explores global justice for children from the perspective of the capability approach.   The capability approach provides a fruitful normative foundation for exploring the issue of global justice for children. To spell this... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Philosophical Reflections on Children and Childhood

3. Methodological Reflections

4. The Currency of Global Justice: Developing Functionings and Capabilities of Children

5. A Universal List of Capabilities and Functionings for Children

6. The Principle of Global Justice: Sufficiency

7. Thresholds for Global Justice

8. Responsibilities of Global Justice for Children

9. Protecting Global Justice for Children

10. Global Justice and Childhood in the 21st Century

Biography

Gottfried Schweiger works as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research at the University of Salzburg. He is, among other roles, Associate Editor of The Journal of Ethics and the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. His publications include the monographs A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty (with Guner Graf) and What is a Good Childhood? A Philosophical Approach (with Johannes Drerup), as well as the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty (co-edited with Clemens Sedmak).