2007
DOI: 10.1177/0090591707304585
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From Historical to Enduring Injustice

Abstract: Advocates of remedying historical injustices urge political communities to take responsibility for their past, but their arguments are ambiguous about whether all past injustices need remedy, or just those regarding groups that suffer from current injustice. This ambiguity leaves unanswered the challenge of critics who argue that contemporary injustices matter, not those in the past. I argue instead for a focus on injustices that have roots in the past, and continue to the present day, what I call enduring inj… Show more

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“…I do not have the space here to say why I think acknowledgement and not responsibility is the appropriate way for nations to treat the past, but this distinction is not important for my argument here. I do argue for this distinction in Spinner‐Halev (2007).…”
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confidence: 89%
“…I do not have the space here to say why I think acknowledgement and not responsibility is the appropriate way for nations to treat the past, but this distinction is not important for my argument here. I do argue for this distinction in Spinner‐Halev (2007).…”
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confidence: 89%
“…Diversity in a plural society is caused not merely by differences of value. It can also be caused by historical factors—particularly by events that are perceived by some groups as an injustice committed against them (Thompson 2002 ; Spinner Halev 2007 , 2001 ). We have seen that Galston’s theory tries to promote toleration, expressive liberty and mutual interrelation.…”
Section: Justification Of Galston’s Liberal Pluralismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2, 1987) and Between Facts and Norms (1998). 1 A few scholarsnotably Robyn Eckersly (2001), Kristian Ekeli (2005;2007) and Robert Goodin (2000Goodin ( , 2003-have begun the important work of incorporating future concerns into deliberative models, yet much more needs to be done to push intergenerational justice issues to the center of our democratic imaginations. According to the theory, democracies achieve consensus through an intersubjective discussion of experience that allows people to "harmonize" worldviews and actions.…”
Section: Missing Generationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It thus looks both forward and backward, considering the political options and providing justification for one's claims and actions. In the backward shift, intergenerational responsibility involves something like Spinner-Halev's arguments about addressing “enduring injustice” (2007). 13 He argues that political communities have a responsibility to address these forms of injustice (although he eschews the language of “taking responsibility for the past”).…”
Section: Contemporary Reflectionsmentioning
confidence: 99%