Wronging Future People: A Contractualist Proposal

Intergenerational Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kumar, Rahul ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contractualism; Historical injustice; Non consequentialism; Non identity problem; Reparations; Scanlon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922169651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282951.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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