COMPLEX COLLECTIVE DUTIES & ACTION-GUIDANCE
In: Kriterion, Jg. 64 (2024), Heft 156, S. 793-809
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ABSTRACT We can often find in the literature (both popular and academic) ascriptions of complex collective duties to extensive unstructured collections of individuals. By ‘complex collective duties’, I mean collective duties that, plausibly, require that the individual members of an extensive unstructured collection should enact different contributory act-types to achieve an end jointly - for example, the alleged universal collective duty to end global poverty. In this paper, I argue that these duties are not action-guiding. The reason is that they do not pass what I call the ‘test of action-guidance’. This test assumes the intuitive belief that a moral duty is action-guiding only if it is clear to the duty-bearer the act-type that she should enact after the ascription of the duty. Complex collective duties ascribed to extensive unstructured collections fail to pass this test because, even though each duty-bearer (that is, each member of the collection) receives guidance on the end that they should achieve jointly, it is not clear to these agents the act-type that each of them should put into practice.
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COMPLEX COLLECTIVE DUTIES & ACTION-GUIDANCE
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Rettig, Cristian |
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Zeitschrift: | Kriterion, Jg. 64 (2024), Heft 156, S. 793-809 |
Veröffentlichung: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0100-512X (print) ; 0100-512x (print) |
DOI: | 10.1590/0100-512x2023n15608cr |
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