In view of the Black condition as discussed in the previous chapters, this chapter demonstrates what rectificatory justice requires in face of the historical injustices that make up the Black condition. On the one hand, the chapter explains that there are different ways to go about rectification. On the other hand, the chapter juxtaposes the constraints of political feasibility (which imposes a threshold constraint about what should be done) with the demands of moral reasonableness (which seeks justice and fairness in spite of the constraints of political feasibility). In view of such juxtaposition, and bearing in mind that in the process of rectifying injustice we should be careful not to commit injustice, the chapter teases out the principle of ‘fiat justitia, pereat mundus?’ (let justice be done, though the world perish?) and its implication for the rectification of the historical injustice of the Black Condition.

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To Rectify or Not to Rectify, That Is the Question

  • Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere

摘要

In view of the Black condition as discussed in the previous chapters, this chapter demonstrates what rectificatory justice requires in face of the historical injustices that make up the Black condition. On the one hand, the chapter explains that there are different ways to go about rectification. On the other hand, the chapter juxtaposes the constraints of political feasibility (which imposes a threshold constraint about what should be done) with the demands of moral reasonableness (which seeks justice and fairness in spite of the constraints of political feasibility). In view of such juxtaposition, and bearing in mind that in the process of rectifying injustice we should be careful not to commit injustice, the chapter teases out the principle of ‘fiat justitia, pereat mundus?’ (let justice be done, though the world perish?) and its implication for the rectification of the historical injustice of the Black Condition.