PHIL 276 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collective Memory

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Advocates of remedying historical injustices urge political communities to take re- sponsibility for their past, but their arguments are ambiguous about whether all past injustices need remedy, or just those regarding groups that suffer from current injus- tice. This ambiguity leaves unanswered the challenge of critics who argue that con- temporary injustices matter, not those in the past. He argues instead for a focus on in- justices that have roots in the past, and continue to the present day, what he calls en- during injustice. Instead of focusing on finding the party responsible for the injustice, he argues that we use history to help us understand why some injustices endure, which he suggests is partly due to the limitations of liberal justice. He concludes with a conception of responsibility for repairing enduring injustice that deemphasizes searching for the causal agent, and instead focuses on how to repair the injustice, which he explains through an expansive conception of shared space.

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