Unfinished Business. Racial Junctures in US History and Their Legacy
by Lyons, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 271-298. In this chapter, David Lyons examines what he terms the creation of racial hierarchy in the United States, its perpetuation, and its persisting...
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Transitional Justice in the German Democratic Republic and in Unified Germany
by Offe, Claus
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 239-269. A new political regime does not spring from nothing; it emerges from an old or previous regime, write Claus Offe and Ulrike Poppe. Hence, the new...
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A Case Study of Transitional Justice. Athens in 411 and 403 B.C.
by Elster, Jon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 223-238. According to Jon Elster, transitional justice is not a new idea or reality. Issues of retribution and restitution are almost as old as democracy...
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Transitional Historical Justice
by Teitel, Ruti G
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 209-221. As Ruti Teitel remarks at the beginning of this chapter, we live in a time where questions of transitional justice are increasing. How should a...
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The Relevance of Biblical Thought for Understanding Guilt and Shame
by Fletcher, George P
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 199-206. Modern discussions about responsibility for crimes or injustices committed in the past raise significant questions about collective guilt and shame....
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Ressentiment and Reconciliation. Alternative Responses to Historical Evil
by Heyd, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 185-197. As David Heyd notes, the Biblical story of Lot’s wife is well known. God warned Lot and his family to flee Sodom and Gomorrah, and not...
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Surviving Duties and Symbolic Compensation
by Meyer, Lukas H
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 173-183. Lukas Meyer begins this essay with the observation that many arguments for current obligations to provide compensation for past injustices invoke an...
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Colonization and Historical Injustice–The Australian Experience
by Patton, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 159-172. Colonization in Australia produced what the various European colonizations around the world usually produced – indigenous populations...
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The Legacy of Injustice. Wronging the Future, Responsibility for the Past
by Kumar, Rahul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 145-158. Do African-Americans today have a valid claim in seeking redress for themselves for the historical wrongs of slavery in America? As Rahul Kumar and...
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Ancient Wrongs and Modern Rights
by Sher, George
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 135-144. George Sher begins this essay with the assumption that it is widely acknowledged that people may deserve compensation for the effects of wrong acts...
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Historical Wrongs. The Two Other Domains
by Pogge, Thomas W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 117-134. Should historical or past injustices affect present moral reasons for action? This question is central to the topic of historical injustice, writes...
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Collective Responsibility for Historical Injustices
by Thompson, Janna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 101-115. It is generally accepted that an individual or even a group which commits a wrong against another individual or another group may be held...
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Historical Rights
by Gans, Chaim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 79-99. As Chaim Gans observes at the beginning of this chapter, the notion “historical rightsâ€? has to do with events that (a) occurred...
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Redressing Historical Injustice
by Waldron, Jeremy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 55-77. Jeremy Waldron begins this chapter with reference to Immanuel Kant’s argument that each person and each group has the right to approach...
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Einleitung (Introduction)
by Meyer, Lukas H
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) In, Lukas H. Meyer, ed., Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp. 9-52. In this essay, editor Lukas Meyer provides a substantial introduction to the topic of intergenerational justice and significant issues connected with...
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