Giving the Dead Their Due  

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Ridge, Michael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 114 no. 1 (Oct. 2003), page 38-59.
Topik: Kematian; Traditional; Duties Dead; Moral

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.17 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Social injustices leave legacies that outlive their immediate victims. The victims 'descendants often argue that reparations are owed for these injustices, and these arguments are not always unheeded. Eight Sioux tribes were awarded $105 million by U.S. Supreme Court in 1980 as reparations for land seized in Black Hills in 1877. Holocaust victims and their descendants have received reparations from Germany and Swiss Banks and corporations complicit in the Holocaust. Other cases have been less successful, but not obviously because they have less merit. In 1969, James Forman demanded that various religious instutions owed $500 million to African_Americans for their role in slavery. More recently, Representative John Conyers has argued for establishments of a committee to explore reparations for slavery. Conyers pushed for such a committee every year since 1989 to no avail. Such demands should not be dismissed out of hand. In light of familiar difulties plaguing existing approaches, I propose an unorthodox alternative account. On the proposed account, reparations are owed to the dead.

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