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Political philosophy

the argument that changing circumstances can cancel past entitlements, so some historic wrongs no longer call for restoring what was taken.

In political philosophy, supersession of historic injustice refers to the argument that changing circumstances can cancel past entitlements, so some historic wrongs no longer call for restoring what was taken. This meaning comes from Waldron (1992) in Ethics.[1]

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Waldron, J. (1992). Superseding Historic Injustice. Ethics, 103(1), 4-28. https://doi.org/10.1086/293468

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