Justice Back and Forth : Duties to the Past and Future / Richard Vernon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vernon, Richard, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice.

Reparations for historical injustices.

Intergenerational relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1051-9

1-4875-1050-0

OCLC:

962450629