Injustice and Rectification

This book aims to help answer two questions that Western philosophy has paid relatively little attention to - what is injustice and what does justice require when injustice occurs? Injustice and Rectification offers a taxonomy of justice, which sets forth an initial framework for a moral theory of justice and focuses on framing a conception of rectificatory justice. The taxonomy is ground for this book's eleven other essays, in which a diverse group of authors brings philosophical analysis to bear on the idea of injustice itself and on some important conceptual and normative issues concerning the rectification of injustice. Contents: Rodney C. Roberts: Justice and Rectification: A Taxonomy of Justice - Anthony D. Woozley: Injustice - Phillip Montague: « The Laborers in the Vineyard and Other Stories - Jules L. Coleman: Corrective Justice and Property Rights - Judith J. Thomson: Rights and Compensation - Phillip Montague: Rights and Duties of Compensation - Gerald F. Gaus: Does Compensation Restore Equality? - Louis F. Kort: What Is an Apology? - Kathleen A. Gill: The Moral Functions of an Apology - Bernard R. Boxill: The Morality of Reparation - Hugo Adam Bedau: Compensatory Justice and the Black Manifesto - J. Angelo Corlett: Wrongdoing, Reparations and Native Americans.