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Another Look at a Moral Statute of Limitations on Injustice
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Roberts, Rodney C. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | This paper addresses the question of whether a statute of limitations on injustice is morally justified. Rectificatory justice calls for the ascription of a right to rectification once an injustice has been perpetrated. To claim a moral statute of limitations on injustice is to claim a temporal limit on the moral legitimacy of rights to rectification. A moral statute of limitations on injustice (hereafter MSOL) establishes an amount of time following injustice after which claims of rectification can no longer be valid. Such a statute would put a time limit on the life of moral rights to rectification. Since ascribing a right to rectification for an injustice is a requirement of justice, and since the temporal limit called for by a moral statute of limitations on injustice is a constraint on that requirement, the idea of a statute of limitations on injustice is morally jutified only if we have good reasons for accepting this constraint. In “The Morality of a Moral Statute of Limitations on Injustice” I argued that neither the best arguments then extant in the philosophical literature, nor the arguments I proposed in favor of a MSOL, succeed in providing good reasons for accepting the idea as morally legitimate. I concluded, therefore, that a MSOL is not justified. Several discussions that have emerged since then suggest some support for a MSOL. My aim in this paper is to show that a MSOL remains unjustified by showing that none of the arguments arising from these discussions succeed. |
| Starting Page | 177 |
| Ending Page | 192 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10892-005-7987-7 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1007/s10892-005-7987-7 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-005-7987-7 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
