ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the question of global justice. A good point to start is with some terminology: justice is the standard against which evaluate allocations of resources among people, where resources can be understood as comprising any goods which are needed in order to realise a good life. On this understanding any allocation of resources between two or more people can be just or unjust. Understood as the standard for evaluating such allocations, justice involves two dimensions: first, an account of the conditions for an allocation to count as just. This aspect concerns the content of justice; second, an account of which allocations are subject to the standard of justice; this aspect concerns the scope of justice. Both the conservative and the progressive views, given their agreement on fairness as the standard for justice, take John Rawls's Theory of Justice as their starting point.
