David Miller on Inherited National Responsibility

This paper offers a critique of David Miller's recent account of inherited national responsibility. It is argued that the account leads to a dilemma: either it does not make sense to say that we can accept the national inheritance, or, on a different sense of acceptance, it does, but then we e...

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Main Author: Pranay Sanklecha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tübingen University 2009-01-01
Series:Intergenerational Justice Review
Online Access:https://igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr/article/view/520
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