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Ideas have consequences, and ideas have origins. Origins are at least as important as consequences, and sometimes more important, as the origin of the automobile illustrates. Likewise, moral ideas have origins equally significant for their content, as does the idea of justice. Our traditional European ideas of justice include the foundations of slavery and genocide. Only indigenous ideas of justice avoid those foundations.
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Rosenbaum, S. (2018). Prologue. In: Race, Justice and American Intellectual Traditions . Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76198-5_1
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