CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Broadhead, Stearns |
|---|---|
| Title | All Together Alone: On Moral Responsibility for Collective Wrongdoing |
| Summary | This doctoral dissertation offers a solution to a problem that appears perhaps most perspicuously in law. The problem can be formulated as a question: Who is morally responsible for collective wrongdoing such as genocide? There are three prominent ways (sometimes in combination)in which this query has been approached by theorists focused on the topic of responsibility for collective wrongdoing. First, it has been addressed as a question about the subjects of moral responsibility (e.g., individuals or groups). Second, it has been treated as a question about the objects of responsibility (e.g., dateable events or character). Third, it has been regarded as a question about the conditions under which it is appropriate to hold a subject morally responsible for collective wrongdoing. This dissertation largely eschews the first two approaches. It takes as its starting point the view that individuals can be morally responsible for past events and outcomes. As is shown, these include collective wrongdoing, which is a harmful event or outcome produced by multiple agents who together concertedly act (or omit) to bring it about. This dissertation argues that only when an individual intentionally participates as a group member with others in collective wrongdoing can she be morally responsible for it as such. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic, Nenad |
| Department | Political Science PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/broadhead_stearns.pdf |
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