ABSTRACT

Taylor has not offered a clue as to whether he thinks all unjust social practices must be abolished or, if not all, how to differentiate between those that should and those that need not be abolished. Nor has he demonstrated the necessity or even possibility of compensation in such cases. The vague­ ness of his use of these important terms gives rise to a suspicion that the phrase, “institutionalized injustice demands institutionalized compensa­ tion,” may be little more than a high-sounding but vacuous slogan.