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- The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Natural Law and the Origins of Human Rights
- Part II Natural Law Foundations of Human Rights Obligations
- Part III Natural Law and Human Rights within Religious Traditions
- Part IV The Human Person, Political Community, and Rule of Law
- Part V Rival Interpretations and Interpretive Principles
- 24 Moral Pluralism, Political Disagreement, and Human Rights
- 25 Human Rights Law and Adjudication
- 26 Natural Law and Human Rights amid the Legal Ruins of Liberal Scepticism, Values Language, and Global Resets
- 27 Human Rights and the Modes of Judicial Responsibility
- 28 The Right to Religious Freedom
- 29 Natural Law, Rights of the Family, and International Human Rights Instruments
- 30 Natural Law and Socioeconomic Rights
- 31 Solidarity and Global Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines
- Part VI Challenges and Future Prospects
- Index
31 - Solidarity and Global Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines
A Question of Equality?
from Part V - Rival Interpretations and Interpretive Principles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Natural Law and the Origins of Human Rights
- Part II Natural Law Foundations of Human Rights Obligations
- Part III Natural Law and Human Rights within Religious Traditions
- Part IV The Human Person, Political Community, and Rule of Law
- Part V Rival Interpretations and Interpretive Principles
- 24 Moral Pluralism, Political Disagreement, and Human Rights
- 25 Human Rights Law and Adjudication
- 26 Natural Law and Human Rights amid the Legal Ruins of Liberal Scepticism, Values Language, and Global Resets
- 27 Human Rights and the Modes of Judicial Responsibility
- 28 The Right to Religious Freedom
- 29 Natural Law, Rights of the Family, and International Human Rights Instruments
- 30 Natural Law and Socioeconomic Rights
- 31 Solidarity and Global Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines
- Part VI Challenges and Future Prospects
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues for a revised theory of moderate vaccine cosmopolitanism, grounded in a Thomistic natural law interpretation of the principle of solidarity, tempered by the principle of subsidiarity. Solidarity does call for love of neighbour, and therefore for global responsibilities of mutual care among nations. However, love of neighbour does not necessitate equality of treatment and resources, or equality of care and concern. Instead, it necessitates equity: love requires shared yet differentiated duties to care for those in need, according to their needs and our relationships to the most vulnerable. So, love tolerates – and even justifies – some partiality in taking care first of those in one’s own community, without abandoning outsiders to their own luck. This understanding of solidarity is predicated on the idea of equality of dignity – meaning, equal respectful consideration and loving regard among persons and nations. Equality of dignity is consistent with treating, caring, and being concerned with different people in different ways, according to their different needs and their different relationships to us, like the principle of subsidiarity suggests.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights , pp. 465 - 482Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022