RT Article
T1 Corrective vs. Distributive Justice: the Case of Apologies
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 19
IS 3
SP 663
OP 677
A1 Cohen, Andrew I.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1565746678
AB This paper considers the relation of corrective to distributive justice. I discuss the shortfalls of one sort of account that holds these are independent domains of justice. To support a more modest claim that these are sometimes independent domains of justice, I focus instead on the case of apologies. Apologies are sometimes among the measures specified by corrective justice. I argue that the sorts of injustices that apologies can help to correct need not always be departures from ideals specified by distributive justice. Apologies and the moral relations they engage might thus be parts of a domain of justice that is neither distributive nor dependent on distributive justice.
K1 Apologies
K1 Compensation
K1 Corrective justice
K1 Distributive Justice
K1 Reparations
DO 10.1007/s10677-015-9674-5