Group Agents and Moral Status : What Can We Owe to Organizations?
Journal article
Lovett, Adam and Riedener, Stefan. (2021). Group Agents and Moral Status : What Can We Owe to Organizations? Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 51(3), pp. 221-238. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2021.8
Authors | Lovett, Adam and Riedener, Stefan |
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Abstract | Organizations have neither a right to vote nor a right to life. But we can owe them to keep our promises or show them gratitude. So we owe some things to organizations, but not everything we owe to people. What explains this? Individualistic views explain it just in terms of features of organizations’ individual members. Collectivistic views explain it just in terms of features of those organizations. Neither view works. Instead, we need to synthesize these approaches. Some individual interests are distinctively collective. Individuals have an interest in participating in successful collective action. This explains organizations’ apparently fragmented moral status. |
Keywords | Group agents; organizations; interest theory of rights ; moral status ; political obligations |
Year | 01 Jan 2021 |
Journal | Canadian Journal of Philosophy |
Journal citation | 51 (3), pp. 221-238 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
ISSN | 0045-5091 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2021.8 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy/article/group-agents-and-moral-status-what-can-we-owe-to-organizations/F8FBE4ADFA2F4E4CCB8F21CBACEF2300 |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 221-238 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 18 Jun 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 26 Nov 2024 |
Additional information | © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Canadian Journal of Philosophy. |
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
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