Show item record

dc.contributor.authorGuertin-Armstrong, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-11T22:05:21Z
dc.date.available2016-03-11T22:05:21Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.revueithaque.org/fichiers/Ithaque12/Guertin-Armstrong.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1866/13243
dc.publisherSociété Philosophique Ithaque
dc.rightsCe texte est publié sous licence Creative Commons : Attribution – Pas d’utilisation commerciale – Partage dans les mêmes conditions 2.5 Canada.
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/legalcode.fr
dc.titleHistorical Justice, Nationhood and African Americans
dc.typeArticle
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversité de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département de philosophiefr
dcterms.abstractThe intelligibility of historical justice is linked to matters of agency and causation. This article presents an account of historical justice limited to transgenerational collective agents which is immune to the agency and causation problems affecting traditional theories of diachronic justice. The novel theory is applied to the case of African Americans, to whom no reparations for past wrongs have been made up to now. When conceived as a transgenerational collective agent – i.e. as a nation–, the African Americans are shown to be owed reparations by the American polity. These reparations are deemed necessary to the goal of reconciliation and to the establishment of relations of mutual respect, which are construed as preconditions to effective distributive justice, here and now.
dcterms.isPartOfurn:ISSN:1703-1001
dcterms.languageeng
UdeM.VersionRioxxVersion publiée / Version of Record
oaire.citationTitleIthaque
oaire.citationVolume12
oaire.citationStartPage23
oaire.citationEndPage51


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show item record

Ce texte est publié sous licence Creative Commons : Attribution – Pas d’utilisation commerciale – Partage dans les mêmes conditions 2.5 Canada.
Usage rights : Ce texte est publié sous licence Creative Commons : Attribution – Pas d’utilisation commerciale – Partage dans les mêmes conditions 2.5 Canada.