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344Injustices of the past cast a shadow on the present. They are the root cause of much harm, the source of enmity, and increasingly in recent times, the focus of demands for reparation. In this groundbreaking philosophical investigation, Janna Thompson examines the problems raised by reparative demands and puts forward a theory of reparation for historical injustices. The book argues that the problems posed by historical injustices are best resolved by a reconciliatory view of reparative justice a…Read more
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322Aesthetics and the Value of NatureEnvironmental Ethics 17 (3): 291-305. 1995.Like many environmental philosophers, I find the idea that the beauty of wildernesses makes them valuable in their own right and gives us a moral duty to preserve and protect them to be attractive. However, this appeal to aesthetic value encounters a number of serious problems. I argue that these problems can best be met and overcome by recognizing that the appreciation of natural environments and the appreciation of great works of arts are activities more similar than many people have supposed.
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216Historical injustice and reparation: Justifying claims of descendantsEthics 112 (1): 114-135. 2001.
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214A Refutation of Environmental EthicsEnvironmental Ethics 12 (2): 147-160. 1990.An environmental ethic holds that some entities in nature or in natural states of affairs are intrinsically valuable. I argue that proposals for an environmental ethic either fail to satisfy requirements which any ethical system must satisty to be an ethic or they fail to give us reason to suppose that the values they promote are intrinsic values. If my arguments are correct, then environmental ethics is not properly ethics at all.
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185Collective responsibility for historic injusticesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 30 (1). 2006.The article presents critical examination of theories about collective responsibility attempting to cover responsibility for historic injustices. The author will also try to establish the possibility of collective responsibility for the present members of the group to make recompense for the injustices committed by their ancestors depending on two factors expounded in the article
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132Focusing on contemporary social issues-- the environmental crisis, population growth and demographic change, and the question of whether reparations are owed to indigenous peoples--this study presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, and explains what relationships between contemporary generations count as fair
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92Obligations of Justice and the Interests of the DeadInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (2): 289-300. 2016.Intergenerational justice gives present citizens obligations to past as well as future generations. Present members of a political society have an obligation to respect the contributions of their predecessors. But respect for past generations also means taking their intergenerational objectives into account in political decision-making—giving them weight in determining intergenerational policies—and thus treating past generations as participants in intergenerational policymaking. Neither the ina…Read more
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86Historical obligationsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 78 (3). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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81Environment as HeritageEnvironmental Ethics 22 (3): 241-258. 2000.Arguments for the preservation of natural objects and environments sometimes appeal to the value of those objects as cultural heritage. Can something be valuable because of its relation to the historical past? I examine and assess arguments for preservation based upon heritage value and defend the thesis that we have an obligation to appreciate what our predecessors valued and to value those thingsthat have played an important role in our history. I show how this conception of our obligations ca…Read more
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74Cultural Property, Restitution and ValueJournal of Applied Philosophy 20 (3). 2003.abstract Demands for restitution of cultural artefacts and relics raise four main issues: 1) how claims to cultural property can be justified; 2) whether and under what conditions demands for restitution of cultural property are valid — especially when they are made long after the artefacts were taken away; 3) whether there are values, aesthetic, scholarly and educational, which can override restitution claims, even when these claims are legitimate; and 4) how these values bear on the question o…Read more
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62The ethics of intergenerational relationshipsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (2-3): 313-326. 2017.According to the relational approach we have obligations to members of future generations not because of their interests or properties but because, and only because, they are our descendants or successors. Common accounts of relational duties do not explain how we can have obligations to people who do not yet exist. In this defence of the relational approach I examine three sources of intergenerational obligations: the concern of parents for their children, including their future children; the d…Read more
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61Art, property rights, and the interests of humanityJournal of Value Inquiry 38 (4): 545-560. 2004.
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54Is apology a sorry affair? Derrida and the moral force of the impossiblePhilosophical Forum 41 (3): 259-274. 2010.
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47Inherited Obligations and Generational ContinuityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 493-515. 1999.Those who believe that they have special obligations to their community — to their family, state or nation, clan, tribe, or cultural group — often insist that they have duties not merely to present and future members. They also claim to have responsibilities to, or in respect to, their predecessors. David Miller, in his defence of ‘nationality,’ claims that the existence of a nation as a historical community is one of the features which make it ‘a community of obligation.’ ‘“Because our forebear…Read more
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44Groups as intergenerational agents: Responsibility through time and changeJournal of Social Philosophy 53 (1): 8-20. 2022.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 8-20, Spring 2022.
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40Justice and world order: a philosophical inquiryRoutledge. 1992.Thompson considers the concept of international justice as it has developed in political theory from Hobbes to the present day, and develops a theory designed to take account of both individual freedom and differences among communities. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
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35Being in Time: Ethics and Temporal VulnerabilityIn Catriona Mackenzie, Wendy Rogers & Susan Dodds (eds.), Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy, Oup Usa. pp. 162. 2013.
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34A Refutation of Environmental EthicsEnvironmental Ethics 12 (2): 147-160. 1990.An environmental ethic holds that some entities in nature or in natural states of affairs are intrinsically valuable. I argue that proposals for an environmental ethic either fail to satisfy requirements which any ethical system must satisty to be an ethic or they fail to give us reason to suppose that the values they promote are intrinsic values. If my arguments are correct, then environmental ethics is not properly ethics at all.
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34Discourse and knowledge: defence of a collectivist ethicsRoutledge. 1998.We disagree about issues like abortion, euthanasia, the meaning of justice and the treatment of animals, and our debates often fail to reach a consensus. Discourse and Knowledge claimes that there is a correct solution to ethical controversies but that ethical decisions have to be made collectively. Janna Thompson argues that discourse is required for the very process of reaching correct conclusions about ethical matters.
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33I. land rights and aboriginal sovereigntyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 68 (3). 1990.This Article does not have an abstract
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25Coming to Terms with the Past in AustraliaIn Jon Miller & Rahul Kumar (eds.), Reparations: interdisciplinary inquiries, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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24Injustice and the Removal of Aboriginal ChildrenAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 2 (1): 2-13. 2000.
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