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A Podcast That Interviews Leading Philosophers About Pressing Moral and Political Issues.

Should we pay reparations for wrongs committed in the past?

With Daniel Butt
 

Are African Americans owed reparations for the enslavement of their ancestors?  Are former colonized countries owed reparations by their former colonial powers?  Or is there something absurd about paying for wrongs that happened a generation or several generations back.  Daniel Butt teaches political theory at Oxford University. Daniel Butt gives his view.