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Justice Back and Forth : Duties to the Past and Future.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781487510503
  • 1487510500
  • 9781487510510
  • 1487510519
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Justice Back and Forth : Duties to the Past and Future.DDC classification:
  • 320.011 23
LOC classification:
  • JC578 .V476 2016eb
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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.
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.
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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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.

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