Rectifying Historical Injustice
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Author | : Daniel Butt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199218242 |
Rectifying International Injustice examines the theory behind claims for reparations and compensation as a result of historic international injustice.
Author | : Lukas H. Meyer |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2022-11-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000800075 |
Calls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines around the world. People dispute the degree to which justice should be concerned with righting past wrongs, with some arguing that justice should be primarily focused on claims arising from present disadvantage. Proponents and sceptics of restitution, compensation, and other forms of historical redress have engaged with the thesis that historical injustice can be superseded, the idea that changing circumstances following historical injustices can alter what justice later requires. The “supersession thesis,” developed by legal and political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, has been challenged, both conceptually and in terms of its possible application and implications. This is the first book to critically assess how the supersession thesis might be reconstructed, challenged, or applied to empirical cases, with an eye toward larger questions surrounding the temporal orientation of justice. Cases examined include Indigenous peoples, linguistic injustice, and climate change. The edited volume includes contributions by established and junior scholars from philosophy, law, American Indian Studies, and political science, who draw from Indigenous thought, settler colonial theory, liberalism, theories of historical entitlements, and structural injustice theories. It concludes with a reply by Jeremy Waldron. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Author | : M. Vaca Paniagua |
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Release | : 2012 |
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This thesis is concerned with the problem of rectification in the theory of justice. We are faced with examples of great historical injustice over the last few centuries. A proper regard for the demands of rectification seems required of us in the face of the overwhelming importance that victims place on it; without it, no society can hope to sustain mutual respect among its citizens, the non-victims and the victims, nor probably foster the self-respect of the victims. I argue that the problem of rectification poses a distinctive and fundamental problem for classical theories of justice and specifically for John Rawls's account of justice-as-fairness. Defenders of Rawls might claim, first, that rectification falls outside the scope of his theory of justice, since that is intended as ideal theory, and thus formulated against the fictional assumption that no historical wrongs have taken place. In this view, rectification is a concern of real political theory but not of ideal theory of justice. I argue that this defence is mistaken. Secondly, defenders of Rawls who concede that rectification is a proper part of the ideal theory of justice might claim that the principles of justice-as-fairness provide a basis for determining the extent to which justice requires rectification of wrongs. This too, I argue, is mistaken. In light of the demands that rectification places on us, I propose an alternative picture of equality as conceived of within the liberal tradition.
Author | : Nahshon Perez |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2012-07-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0748649646 |
Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs? There is a widespread belief that contemporary citizens should take responsibility for rectifying past wrongs. Nahshon Perez challenges this view, questioning attempts to aggregate dead wrongdoers with living people, and examining ideas of intergenerational collective responsibility with great suspicion. He distinguishes sharply between those who are indeed unjustly enriched by past wrongs, and those who are not. Looking at issues such as the distinction between compensation and restitution, counterfactuals and the non-identity problem, Perez concludes that individuals have the right to a clean slate, and that almost all of the pro-intergenerational redress arguments are unconvincing. Key Features *Unique in claiming past wrongs should not be rectified *Analyses pro-intergenerational material redress arguments *Case studies include court cases from Australia, Northern Cyprus, the United States and Austria, and political and social movements from the US, Palestine and Arab countries
Author | : Jeff Spinner-Halev |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2012-04-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107017513 |
Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today.
Author | : Moises Vaca Paniagua |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Rodney C. Roberts |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780820478609 |
This book aims to help answer two questions that Western philosophy has paid relatively little attention to - what is injustice and what does justice require when injustice occurs? Injustice and Rectification offers a taxonomy of justice, which sets forth an initial framework for a moral theory of justice and focuses on framing a conception of rectificatory justice. The taxonomy is ground for this book's eleven other essays, in which a diverse group of authors brings philosophical analysis to bear on the idea of injustice itself and on some important conceptual and normative issues concerning the rectification of injustice.
Author | : Richard Vernon |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441121315 |
An introduction to the philosophical implications of the recent surge of political and ethical interest in historical redress.
Author | : Alasia Nuti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108419941 |
Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.
Author | : Robert Meister |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-04-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 022673451X |
More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out “too big to fail” banks, but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and a populist backlash against elites has shaken the foundations of our political order. Meanwhile, financial capitalism seems more entrenched than ever. What is the left to do? Justice Is an Option uses those problems—and the framework of finance that created them—to reimagine historical justice. Robert Meister returns to the spirit of Marx to diagnose our current age of finance. Instead of closing our eyes to the political and economic realities of our era, we need to grapple with them head-on. Meister does just that, asking whether the very tools of finance that have created our vastly unequal world could instead be made to serve justice and equality. Meister here formulates nothing less than a democratic financial theory for the twenty-first century—one that is equally conversant in political philosophy, Marxism, and contemporary politics. Justice Is an Option is a radical, invigorating first page of a new—and sorely needed—leftist playbook.