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Justice and History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2020

Susan Neiman
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Abstract

This article explores intergenerational justice and its connection to historic (in)justice and reparations. It includes both the post-war period, and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, as case studies.

Type
Research Article
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Philosophy , Volume 95 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 211 - 225
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2020

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8 See: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dr-shashi-tharoor-tells-the-oxford-union-why-britain-owes-reparations-for-colonising-india-in-viral-10407997.html.

9 This paper was originally delivered as the 2019 Royal Institute of Philosophy/Royal Society of Edinburgh Lecture, on Monday 25 November.