Within the contemporary international order, deep structural inequalities coexist alongside a nominally pluralistic society of states that grants international personality to politically organised communities. Asymmetric interactions between distinct political communities have shaped the development of the international system from the colonial era to the present phase of global economic integration. Rising interdependence, problems of unequal development and the democratic mobilisation of peoples around the world have generated moral claims regarding the injustice of global inequality. In this context the international politics of inequality have taken the format of challenges by the political representatives of the global South to the dominance of the advanced industrialised North. The normative dimensions of this process can be understood through a focus on this process of political argument between unequals. Political argument is contestation over the principles appropriate to govern a sphere of social interaction. The thesis seeks to vindicate the notion that the challenges by the global South have given rise to a dynamic of political argument within a norm-governed international society. Changes in patterns of normative belief, material power and forms of political organisation have historically shaped North-South relations. Therefore, through the analysis of particular episodes of North-South argument, the thesis attempts to provide insights into the moral limits and possibilities of an evolving international society. Analysing the organised attempts to challenge inequality on the part of the representatives of the global South, the thesis seeks to advance the position the tensions generated by claims over inequality might provide the nucleus for the incorporation of egalitarian concerns into the operation of international society. Through participation in common practices of statehood, the peoples of the global South possess at least some ability to challenge structural inequalities and thus the potential to expand the moral limits of international society.

Many studies have been carried out throughout the world on how street-connected children relate to the streets, but not enough of these studies are seen through a gender perspective. Hence, the general conception of street-connected children is in some manner still mainstreamed, which casts an image claiming all children in the same category. This demonstrates that there is currently a missing gap of knowledge. This study covers whether the role of gender could affect the lives of the children that live and work on the streets, through a qualitative research in the field with 28 interviewees. These interviews were largely conducted in Brikama, Serekunda, Topkunda, Farafenni, Madina Salaam and Bakau in The Gambia, where the majority of the Gambian NGOs and street-connected children is located. The results from analysing these interviews pointed towards the same pattern: that there were a few similarities in the livelihoods of the street-connected boys and girls. However, the differences concerning their livelihoods on the streets were greater since the findings demonstrated that their challenges and opportunities of achieving the Ten Central Human Capabilities were different. Street-connected boys and street-connected girls were both exposed to child labour. The main difference was, street-connected boys, who lived in groups, worked in car garages, fish industries and for shop owners, while the few girls who permanently lived on the streets, were alone and sexual exploited. This research is thus not merely a contribution to the studies of street-connected children, but how gender is relating to the streets. Furthermore, a contribution to improve these vulnerable children’s livelihoods and also increase the awareness through the perspective of humanities, which might be crucial in future policy recommendations and research.

Ce mémoire traite de la critique communautarienne du libéralisme et se donne deux projets. D’abord, il s’agit de formuler une position de synthèse à partir des travaux des philosophes Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, Alasdair MacIntyre et Michael Walzer. Cette synthèse s’articule autour de trois axes, soit ontologique, sociale et méthodologique. Le deuxième projet est d’évaluer cette position pour statuer sur son rapport au libéralisme, et, plus précisément, pour déterminer si elle est seulement une critique, une alternative, ou encore une variante à l’intérieur du libéralisme. Il est conclu que le communautarisme est réconciliable avec une certaine forme de libéralisme et que sa critique permet même de l’améliorer. / In this essay about the communitarian critique of liberalism I seek to reach two goals. First, it is to form a synthesis from the works of philosophers Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Walzer. This synthesis is articulated through three axes: ontologicial, social and methodological. Building on this, my second objective is to assess its relation to liberalism. More specifically, I seek to determine whether communitarianism is merely a critique, an alternative or a variant of liberalism. My conclusion is that communitarianism is reconciliable with a certain form of liberalism and that its critique allows to improve it.

Um eine Gesellschaft und einen Staat zu gründen und das friedliche Zusammenleben dauerhaft zu sichern, bedürfen die Menschen eines Grundsatzes oder eines grundlegenden Prinzips, das ihr Verhalten und Handeln reguliert bzw. ordnet. Dieses grundlegendes Prinzip der Gesellschafts- und Staatsbildung bezeichnet man als das Prinzip der Gerechtigkeit. Was aber dieses Prinzip der Gerechtigkeit konkret beinhalten soll, ist wissenschaftlich und philosophisch, d.h. unabhängig von der real bestehenden gesetzlichen Ordnung und Staatsverfassung, gar nicht einfach zu beantworten und zu begründen. Es gibt zwar bereits in der Geschichte der Menschheit zahlreiche Theoretiker, die sich bemühen, dieses grundlegendes Prinzip der Gesellschafts- und Staatsordnung auszuarbeiten, zu konstituieren und zu präsentieren. Das grundlegende Ziel ist die Bildung einer einheitlichen Gesellschaft und die dauerhafte Sicherung des Frieden. Aber niemand von ihnen hat dieses Ziel erreicht. Was von einem als das Prinzip der Gerechtigkeit, auf dem die Menschen eine Gesellschaft und einen Staat gründen sollen bzw. müssen, bezeichnet wird, wird von einem anderen dementiert und abgelehnt und umgekehrt. Eine einheitliche Bestimmung, eine Bestimmung, die von allen anerkannt und akzeptiert wird, über das Prinzip der Gerechtigkeit ist bis heute noch nicht gegeben. Einer der Theoretiker, die sich bemühen, dieses schwieriges Grundproblem der Gesellschaft und des Staates zu lösen, ist der deutsche Philosoph, Immanuel Kant. Zentrales Anligen dieser Arbeit ist herauszufinden, was das Prinzip der Gerechtigkeit bei Kant ist, auf dem wir nach Kant eine Gesellschaft und einen Staat künftig gründen sollen. Kants Philosophie ist aber eine systematische Philosophie, in der alles mit allem zusammenhängt. Ohne Grundkenntnis von einem Teil können andere Teile seiner Philosophie nur schwierig und oberflächlich verstanden werden. Um seine Gesellschafts- und Staatsphilosophie, d.i. seine Philosophie der Gerechtigkeit, ausführlich zu behandeln, sind deshalb das Grundproblem seiner erkenntnistheoretischen Philosophie, seine Grundauffassung über das menschliche Wesen sowie seine Geschichtphilosophie in dieser Arbeit eingeführt bzw. behandelt. / In order to coexist peacefully in a society, human beings require a maxim or a fundamental principle which regulates thier behavior and actions. The fundamental principle on which human beings found thier society and thier state is reforred to as the principle of justice. However, the conkret meaning of this principle of justice is difficult to answer and establish in a scientific, philosophical fashion, that is, independent of what is seen as the principle of justice in our empirical world of experience. In the history of the coexistence of the human beings many theoreticians have attemped to work out, constitute and present this fundamental principle of the social and state order. But none of them has managed to establish a universally valid principle of justice. What on person proposes as a system of rules upon which we should base our society and our state is denied and rejected by others, and vice versa. To this day no universal principle of justice has been determined. On of the theoreticians who have attempted to solve this difficult fundemental problem of society and state is the philosopher Immanuel Kant. The focus of this work is to determine wthat Kant considers to be the principle of justice upon which we should establish a society and a state. But Kant's philosophy is a systematic pholosophy in wich a part is dependent on an others. Without knowledge of a part an other parts of his philosophy are diffical and only superficial to understand. For this reason and for treating Kant´s principle of justice detailed the foundation of his theoretic philosophy (his philosophy of sciens), his anthropology and his philosophy of history are introduced in this work.

A delicada relação entre economia e política contida na questão do financiamento de partidos políticos e campanhas eleitorais vem ocupando um lugar central na agenda política das democracias de todo o mundo, e com a América Latina não poderia ser diferente. Tomando como base as teorias da democracia e da justiça, esta dissertação procura analisar as formas de financiamento político existentes (público, privado e misto), tendo em vista a ameaça que a interferência do dinheiro na política pode acarretar à democracia e à manutenção do valor eqüitativo das liberdades políticas, no contexto das democracias contemporâneas. / The difficult relationship between economic power and democratic politics as it can be seen in political parties and electoral campaign financing issues, has been filling a central place in the political agenda of the democracies all over the world and it couldn´t be different regarding Latin America. Based on theories of democracy and justice, this dissertation analyses arrangements of political financing (public, private and mixed), dealing with the threat that the interference of money in politics might bring to democracy and to the maintenance of fair value of the equal political liberties, in the context of contemporary democracies.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-06-01T12:01:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 André Luiz Silveira De Lima Júnior_.pdf: 1254212 bytes, checksum: afe05ce292d7dc9d009323429777185f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T12:01:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 André Luiz Silveira De Lima Júnior_.pdf: 1254212 bytes, checksum: afe05ce292d7dc9d009323429777185f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-20 / Nenhuma / O presente trabalho tem como temática principal a questão da justiça. Ela, estipulada por meio da retomada de princípios fundamentais, mostra que direcionamentos da formação e manutenção da sociedade foram feitos com o devido assentamento de seus termos, uma vez que a estrutura originária social deve ratificar os critérios de ratificação do justo. Diante da vinculação ocidental a uma tradição concatenada no contrato social, especificamente sob a égide do liberalismo, buscou-se, no decorrer da pesquisa, a retomada dos elementos genealógicos do Estado Moderno a partir da interligação entre os valores da liberdade e da igualdade. Todavia, é bem verdade que a história demonstrou que esse paradigma, apesar de toda a expectativa na crença de se encontrar as respostas pelo método científico, não apenas se mostrara incapaz de superar as desigualdades materiais existentes entre os seres humanos, como também legitimara, na confiança irrestrita na legalidade, atos de desumanidades conformadores de uma “estética da destruição”. A retomada pelos termos dos direitos humanos, feito a partir de meados do Século XX, permitiu um retorno da moral aos elementos institucionais de cooperação social, concatenados mediante a criação de um órgão supranacional, responsável por formatar uma federação internacional e, por conseguinte, estabelecer acordos para a sublimação da dignidade. Não obstante, permanecia em voga a soberania nacional, agora, por sua vez, feita com bases constitucionais. Ainda faltava, porém, uma teoria que conseguisse mediar o Estado Democrático de Direito com esse redimensionamento epistemológico, sobretudo quando se tem em voga um pluralismo latente, reverberado pela aproximação de culturas diferentes através da globalização. Qual seria a melhor maneira de se permitir que os indivíduos possam (re)existir, mantendo a sua autonomia ao mesmo tempo em que compartilham o mesmo horizonte dentro de uma sociedade? A hipótese, confirmada na conclusão, é a de que o modelo do liberalismo político proposto por John Rawls, estruturado a partir da justiça como equidade, propicia as bases para a concatenação de uma democracia deliberativa, embora possua lacunas a serem aperfeiçoadas, é o mais próximo de resolver respostas concretas à problemática proposta. Isso porque busca beneficiar a todos, tornando-se racional, dentro de uma decisão racional, optar pela racionalização da justiça, mediante o respeito aos termos da razão pública, na medida em que, assim, permite-se a existência das mais diversas doutrinas abrangentes. / The main theme of this paper is the question of Justice, established through a resumption of fundamental principles, shows that the directions of the formation and maintenance of society were made with the settlement of their terms by the criteria of ratification of the righteous. In view of Western tradiction, which is linked to the social contract specifically under the aegis of liberalism, the search for a resurgence of the genealogical elements of Modern State was sought from the interconnection between the values of freedom and equality. However, it is quite true that history has shown that this paradigm, despite all the expectation in the belief of answers proposed by scientific methods, not only proved be incapable of overcoming the material inequalities, but also legitimized, in the unrestricted trust in legality, acts of inhumanity that conform an “aesthetics of destruction”. The resumption of the human rights paradigm, after mid-twentieth century, allowed a return of morality to institutional elements of social cooperation, linked by a creation of a supranational system, responsible for the formation of an international federation seeking for the sublimation of dignity. Nonetheless, national sovereignty remained in vogue, but with constitutional foundations. But, even at this point, was still lacking of a theory that could mediate the Democratic Rule of Law with the new epistemological resizing, especially when there is a latent pluralism, reverberate by the approximation of different cultures in globalization. What would be the best way to allow individuals to “(re)ex(s)ist”, while maintaining their autonomy when sharing the same horizon within other members of society? The hypothesis, confirmed in the conclusion, is that the model of political liberalism, proposed by John Rawls and structured from justice as fairness, in which the liberal principles (of the maximum individual freedom and of the difference) provide the bases for the concatenation of a deliberative democracy, although it has gaps to be improved, is the closest to solving the problem by concrete answers. This is because it seeks to benefit all members, making their terms rational in a decision which opt out to make a rationalization of justice terms and also respecting the public reason allowing the existence of the most diverse doctrines.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-09-28T16:48:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Analice Cabral Costa Andrade_.pdf: 544151 bytes, checksum: 520fbd750df60e0c64804793014968c7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-28T16:48:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Analice Cabral Costa Andrade_.pdf: 544151 bytes, checksum: 520fbd750df60e0c64804793014968c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-11 / Nenhuma / Essa dissertação se prende a analisar a teoria da justiça de John Rawls e seus conceitos de véu da ignorância, consenso sobreposto, justiça como equidade e contrato social, compreendendo qual o significado do direito das minorias e analisando a teoria da justiça de Rawls frente ao ordenamento atual de direito (direito geral), verificando a relação desta com o direito das minorias. Para o Direito, precisa-se proteger a minoria da possibilidade de discriminação. A importância, portanto, desse assunto é analisar os princípios jurídicos e os ideais filosóficos da teoria de justiça de John Rawls a fim de esclarecer a relação entre os direitos das maiorias( geral) e o direito das minorias e a aplicação do consenso sobreposto como meio de diminuir as diferenças que o direito quer instituir. / This dissertation relates to analyze the theory of justice of John Rawls and his concepts of veil of ignorance, overlapping consensus, justice as fairness and social contract, understanding the meaning of the rights of minorities and analyzing the theory of justice Rawls against the land current law (general right), verifying its relation to the rights of minorities. To the right, one must protect the minority of the possibility of discrimination. The importance, therefore this issue is to analyze the legal principles and philosophical ideals of John Rawls theory of justice in order to clarify the relationship between the rights of the majority (general) and the rights of minorities and the application of the overlapping consensus as a means to reduce the differences that the right wants to impose.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alberto Antonio Zvirblis.pdf: 726911 bytes, checksum: 7f111ee7f1a3adefaac48dcf56f2630b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-28 / This dissertation is based on the distributive justice theory of John Rawls. It has the purpose of stressing that the theory of justice as fairness supports, in contemporary world, the maximization in the distribution of primary goods which are essential to human dignity in favor of the least fortunate, who are in the worst position in the social ladder, without jeopardizing the inviolability of individuality, which for Rawls is essential: ―Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.‖ Rawls equitable justice stems from original position, which is contractualist, in that the parties are placed behind the veil of ignorance, with no knowledge of the external world and the social position of each participant, in order to permit the founding of principles of justice that are impartial. , the present dissertation seeks to contribute to the understanding that the theory of justice establishes, in the original position, the principles of justice which all agree with and accept to live under a cooperative liberal democratic system, convinced that the primary goods, increasingly scarce in the face of a growing demand and nobody willing to accept a smaller share, will be distributed in an equitable manner, maximizing the distribution to the least endowed in society / A presente tese é alicerçada na justiça equitativa de JOHN RAWLS. Tem a finalidade a destacar, na atualidade, que a teoria da justiça como equidade procura maximizar a distribuição dos bens primários, essenciais à dignidade humana, em favor dos menos afortunados, que estão na pior posição da escala social, sem prejudicar a inviolabilidade da individualidade, que para RAWLS é de suma importância: ―cada pessoa possui uma individualidade fundada na justiça que nem mesmo o bem-estar da sociedade como um todo pode ignorar‖. A justiça equitativa tem sua origem na posição original, posição esta contratualista, em que as partes são colocadas sob o véu de ignorância, com desconhecimento total do mundo externo e da posição social de cada participante, a fim de que sejam estabelecidos os princípios de justiça de forma imparcial. Portanto, a presente tese tem o escopo contributivo de que a teoria da justiça estabelece, na posição original, os princípios de justiça com os quais todos concordam e passam a conviver em um sistema cooperativo liberal democrático, convictos de que os bens primários, cada vez mais escassos em frente de uma demanda cada vez maior, por ninguém se contentar com uma fatia menor, serão distribuídos equitativamente, maximizando a distribuição aos menos favorecidos

Direitos humanos e justiça internacional são temas que abrangem várias categorias de discussão. Ambos são igualmente importantes e sem um somos incapazes de alcançar o outro. Esse trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar as principais teorias políticas contemporâneas que tratam desse tema, em busca da que melhor responde a seguinte questão-problema: qual proposta de filosofia política se adapta uniformemente a valoração dos direitos individuais e argumenta como fatores internacionais afetam a sociedade doméstica? Fazemos uma revisão bibliográfica a partir da obra Uma teoria da justiça de John Rawls, apontamos como o debate se expandiu para o âmbito internacional e quais as críticas que foram feitas ao longo desse processo. Demonstramos como as relações internacionais afetam a política interna de sociedades em desenvolvimento e, assim, não somente devem ser consideradas quando pensamos em direitos individuais, mas também devem se tornar parte essencial e imprescindível de uma teoria de justiça. Por fim, concluímos como a proposta cosmopolita, coerente e precisamente se apresenta como a melhor alternativa a favor dos direitos individuais e, o Imposto Global de Recursos, assegura uma regularidade necessária para a discussão de justiça internacional. / Human rights and international justice are issues that span multiple categories of discussion. Both are equally important and none of them are unable to reach the other by itself. This study aims to present the main contemporary political theories that address this topic, in search of the best answer to the question-problem: which proposed political philosophy evenly fits the valuation of individual rights and argues as international factors affect the domestic society? We review the literature from the work A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, point out how the debate has expanded to the international level and what the criticisms that have been made throughout this process. We demonstrate how international relations affect the domestic policy of developing societies and, thus, should not only be considered when we think about individual rights, but also should become essential and an indispensable part of a theory of justice. At last, we conclude that the consistent and accurately cosmopolitan proposal presents itself as the best alternative in favor of individual rights, and the Global Resources Tax ensures the needed regularity for the discussion of international justice.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-11-14T11:11:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Vinícius Custódio Rios.pdf: 368601 bytes, checksum: 9f08836ea8dd19314a14467dca19bcf8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-14T11:11:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vinícius Custódio Rios.pdf: 368601 bytes, checksum: 9f08836ea8dd19314a14467dca19bcf8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The objective of this work is to study a model of justice that can be objectively appropriated by modern democratic society, addressing the application of justice by the judiciary, providing a reflection on the meaning of some terms such as justice, a sense of justice and equity. To do this study will be used the theory of justice developed by John Rawls. We will seek to identify the applicability of John Rawls' theory of justice in judicial decisions, characterizing and highlighting the relevance of equity so that there is an appropriate and fair mechanism in conflict resolution. The research methodology used to carry out this dissertation is the bibliographical one with doctrinal and jurisprudential grounds, under a deductive and in some points inductive approach / Este trabalho tem por objetivo estudar um modelo de justiça que possa ser objetivamente apropriado pela sociedade democrática moderna abordando a aplicação da justiça pelo judiciário propiciando uma reflexão sobre a significação de alguns termos tais como justiça, senso de justiça, equidade. Para realizar esse estudo utilizar-se-á a teoria da justiça desenvolvida por John Rawls. Buscaremos identificar a aplicabilidade da teoria da justiça proposta por John Rawls nas decisões judiciais, caracterizando e evidenciando a relevância da equidade para que haja um mecanismo apropriado e justo nas soluções de conflitos. A metodologia de pesquisa utilizada para a realização dessa dissertação é a bibliográfica com fundamentação doutrinária e jurisprudencial, sob uma abordagem dedutiva e em alguns pontos indutiva