Do grown up children have obligations to their parents? Do the younger members of a society have obligations to their elders? Most people think that the question in both cases is answered by an appeal to the benefits which those now old conferred on the young. Janna Thompson argues that the duties of the young...

Demands for restitution of 'cultural property' have become increasingly insistent in recent decades. The campaign of the Greek government for the return of the Elgin (or Parthenon) Marbles is well known, but there are many other examples. In this paper Janna Thompson argues that there is a plausible conception of cultural property which can be...

In this paper Janna Thompson concentrates on 'reconciliation' - its adequacy, meaning and requirements. But, because the possibility of reconciliation as acknowledgment and recompense for past wrongs depends on an idea of collective responsibility which, she uses the debate about apology to explain why citizens have a responsibility for making recompense for historical injustices committed...

The Commonwealth government's 2002-03 Intergenerational Report is one in a series of reports required by the Charter of Budget Honesty Act. While there are differing opinions as to the accuracy of the fiscal projections made in the report and the appropriateness of the policy responses it favours, there is also more fundamental point of contention...

Most theorists agree that a theory of justice ought to be practical. Janna Thompson argues that there is no theory of global justice that is both morally adequate and realistic. Those that are adequate as far as their moral content is concerned are unrealistic, and those that are realistic do not satisfy our moral intuitions...