What is reparative justice? / by Margaret Urban Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Margaret Urban, 1948-

Series:

Aquinas lecture ; 2010.

Aquinas lecture ; 2010

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restorative justice.

Reparations for historical injustices.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (70 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The idea of reparation - of amends owed for wrongs and wrongful harms - is ancient, universal, and a basic intuition of justice. Yet despite its ancient and distinguished lineage in Western philosophy, its familiar role in legal remedies for unjust losses and takings, and its increasing application to victims of political violence and repression, reparative justice has not received the wide consideration and sustained debate in contemporary thought that distributive and retributive justice have enjoyed.A fully developed conception of reparative justice would answer at least the following quest

Contents:

half title: What Is Reparative Justice?; title page: The Aquinas Lecture, 2010 What Is Reparative Justice? Margaret Urban Walker; copyright page; Prefatory; What is Reparative Justice? by Margaret Urban Walker; NOTES; The Aquinas Lectures Complete List; bar code

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-87462-178-X

OCLC:

721195099