Justice Back and Forth : Duties to the Past and Future

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In Justice Back and Forth, award-winning author Richard Vernon explores the possibility of justice in cases where time makes reciprocity impossible. This "temporal justice" is examined in ten controversial cases.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vernon, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Reparations for historical injustices.
Justice.
Intergenerational relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Relations entre generations.
Reparations des crimes de l'histoire.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Looking Back; 1 Should We Worry about Presentism?; 2 The Question of [Anyone's] Guilt: Collective Liability to Punishment; 3 For Benefits Received; 4 Giving Back: The Case of Stolen Art; 5 Bad Memories; Part II: Going Forth; 6 The Prior Question: Assessing the Benatar Thesis; 7 Coming to Terms with Yoder; 8 Only Egalitarians May Have Children; 9 If the Future Is a Foreign Country & 10 The Rights of Past and Future Persons; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.

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