Mathias Risse and the Concept of Collective Ownership of the Earth for Responsible to Migration Issues in the Present Day
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In this study of Mathias Risse’s work, the researcher aims to demonstrate that political philosophy is not dead but continues to thrive as a meaningful framework for addressing global issues. It calls to interested scholars to trace the intellectual development of Mathias Risse's concept of "Collective Ownership of the Earth." Risse's theoretical framework draws on two main sources: first, the works of political philosophers in the Global Political Philosophy or Cosmopolitanism area, such as Peter Singer and Thomas Pogge; and second, the religious notions of "Gift of God" and "Freedom of the Seas." Moreover, the Gift of God notion reflects the roots of connecting with the issue of migration, as illustrated in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, in cases such as Ger, Ruth, and Jesus. Risse's connection of his ideas to the issue of migration follows a pattern similar to Testaments. Mathias Risse's development of the idea of "Collective Ownership of the Earth" in response to the issue of migration is more concrete than the proposal of most philosophers, which tend to be highly abstract. Risse advances a framework grounded in diverse philosophical ideas, including reciprocity, the overuse and underuse of resources, the measurement of value in relation to resources and culture, and the role of regulatory bodies overseeing human rights, among others. This proposal was developed into a set of suggested solutions that were linked to the social contexts of the Netherlands, Australia, Kiribati, the United States, and Canada, thereby making the idea clearer and more concrete.
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