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Capturing Transitional Justice: Exploring Colleen Murphy’S The Conceptual Foundations Of Transitional Justice, Margaret Urban Walker
Capturing Transitional Justice: Exploring Colleen Murphy’S The Conceptual Foundations Of Transitional Justice, Margaret Urban Walker
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
Colleen Murphy’s impressive book presents a unified theory of transitional justice as a single, novel, distinct kind of justice, intended to guide normative evaluation of the choices transitional societies make in dealing with the past. I raise three central challenges to Murphy’s theory. First, how do we know that transitional justice is fundamentally a single special kind of justice that permits a grand unified theory? Second, is it plausible to hold, as Murphy claims, that societal transformation is the overarching aim or objective of transitional justice? Third, is transitional justice convincingly explained as pursuing societal transformation ‘through’ or ‘by’ dealing …
Moral Vulnerability And The Task Of Reparations, Margaret Urban Walker
Moral Vulnerability And The Task Of Reparations, Margaret Urban Walker
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
This essay seeks to understand the domain and demands of reparative justice in terms of moral vulnerability. Significant harms raise the question of whether victims stand in truly reciprocal practices of accountability; if they do, they enjoy the power of calling others to account as well as bearing the liability of being accountable to others. In the aftermath of harms, victims’ moral vulnerability is tested: they may be exposed to the insult and injury of discovering that they do not enjoy the moral standing of holding others accountable. While the occasion of reparative justice is significant wrongs and wrongful harms …