Boundaries and Justice
Diverse Ethical Perspectives

Explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and jurisdictional boundaries. This book features cross-chapter dialogue and a conclusion that draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented including Christianity, Confucianism, Islam, and Judaism.

Cross-chapter dialogue and a substantive conclusion draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented, traditions that include Christianity, classical liberalism, Confucianism, international law, Islam, Judaism, liberal egalitarianism, and natural law. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Nigel Biggar, Joseph Boyle, Joseph Chan, Russell Hardin, Will Kymlicka, Loren Lomasky, Robert McCorquodale, Richard B. Miller, David Novak, Sulayman Nyang, Michael Nylan, Raul C. Pangalangan, Daniel Philpott, Jeremy Rabkin, Hillel Steiner, M. Raquibuz Zaman, and Noam J. Zohar.

Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
Introduction by David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi 3
Chapter One: Christian Attitudes toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical by Richard B. Miller 15
Chapter Two: The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries by Nigel Biggar 38
Chapter Three: Toward a Liberal Theory of National Boundaries by Loren Lomasky 55
Chapter Four: Hard Borders, Compensation, and Classical Liberalism by Hillel Steiner 79
Chapter Five: Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism by Joseph Chan 89
Chapter Six: Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought by Michael Nylan 112
Chapter Seven: International Law, Boundaries, and Imagination by Robert McCorquodale 136
Chapter Eight: Territorial Sovereignty: Command, Title, and the Expanding Claims of the Commons by Raul C. Pangalangan 164
Chapter Nine: Islamic Perspectives on Territorial Boundaries and Autonomy by M. Raquibuz Zaman 183
Chapter Ten: Religion and the Maintenance of Boundaries: An Islamic View by Sulayman Nyang 203
Chapter Eleven: Land and People: One Jewish Perspective by David Novak 213
Chapter Twelve: Contested Boundaries: Judaic Visions of a Shared World by Noam J. Zohar 237
Chapter Thirteen: Territorial Boundaries: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective by Will Kymlicka 249
Chapter Fourteen: Group Boundaries, Individual Barriers by Russell Hardin 276
Chapter Fifteen: Boundaries, Ownership, and Autonomy: A Natural Law Perspective by Joseph Boyle 296
Chapter Sixteen: In Defense of Reasonable Lines: Natural Law from a Natural Rights Perspective by Jeremy Rabkin 317
Chapter Seventeen: The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments by Daniel Philpott 335
Index 361