Moral Debt: Defending a New Account of Reparative Justice

In face of historical injustices such as war, colonialism, slavery, and genocides, what responsibilities, if any, do the present generations owe – and to whom are such responsibilities owed? Drawing upon methods of political theory, empirical politics, legal philosophy, and applied ethics, this book advances the novel account of Collective Moral Debt Reparative Justice (CMDRJ).

It aims to establish that descendants of victims inherit claims to reparation by which they can hold inheritors of ...