Seth Lazar, Philosopher and Photographer

The thesis is in three chapters, each corresponding to a component of the core concept of corrective justice: the first analyses the nature of injury; the second, the method of rectification; and finally, chapter three examines the argument for correlative rectification. The first chapter begins by restricting injuries to violations of rights. It offers an account of the substantive moral content of injury that focuses on the independent disvalues of harm and wrong, before arguing that, when we assign a right, we use the relationship between rights and respect to provide a valued interest with substantive protection. It emphasises that corrective justice is concerned with the private, not the public dimensions of harm and wrong, before defending this analysis against some alternatives, as developed by Ernest Weinrib and Jules Coleman. Continue reading »