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Wollstonecraft’s Philosophical Impact on Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Rights Advocates

Author(s)	Botting, Eileen Hunt; Carey, Christine
Abstract	This article challenges an argument from Tom Donaldson’s recent book The Ethics of International Business with a claim that distributive justice, deemed in many circles to impose a duty of mutual aid on individuals and nations, establishes a basis for holding multinational corporations to such a duty as well. The root idea I advocate is that Rawls’ theory of justice can be deployed – beyond its original intent yet in line with its spirit – to underwrite aprima facie obligation of international business to render aid to ameliorate suffering on behalf of the inhabitants of developing countries in which they operate.
IssueNo	4
Pages	707-722
Article	Access to Article
Source	American Journal of Political Science
VolumeNo	48
PubDate	October 2004
ISBN_ISSN	0092-5853

Wollstonecraft’s Philosophical Impact on Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Rights Advocates