Are inequalities between us and the dead intergenerationally unjust?
(2019) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy — Vol. 22, n° 3, p. 284-300 (2019)
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- This paper looks at whether inequalities between us and the past can be unjust. We show why they can be pro tanto unjust, both when the now dead generation transferred more than it had inherited to its descendants (savings) and when it transferred less (dis-savings). However, we also argue that characterising an intergenerational inequality as unjust neither commits us to the claim that it merely involves bad luck, nor implies that it is the current generation that acted unjustly towards the previous one, nor entails that (members of) the dead generation acted unjustly towards us. The paper ends with a discussion on whether we should do something about such unjust inequalities with the past.
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Gosseries, A. (2019). Are inequalities between us and the dead intergenerationally unjust? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 22(3), 284-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2018.1438790 (Original work published 2019)