Collective responsibility / / Gregory Mellema.
Groups of people are commonly said to be collectively responsible for what has happened. Sometimes the groups claimed to be responsible are vast in size, as when collective responsibility is ascribed to the class of all Americans or the class of all white males. In this book the concept of collectiv...
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| Superior document: | Value inquiry book series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1997] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value inquiry book series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (169 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Peter FRENCH: Editorial Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- ONE Introduction
- TWO Collective Actions and the Actions of Individuals
- THREE A Typology of Collective Actions
- FOUR The Case Against Collective Responsibility
- FIVE The Case for Collective Responsibility
- SIX An Existentialist Perspective
- SEVEN Moral Taint
- EIGHT Avoiding Membership in Collectives
- NINE Collective Responsibility, Obligation, and Blame
- TEN Collectives and the Diluting of Responsibility
- ELEVEN Collective Responsibility and the Responsibility of Corporations
- TWELVE A Proposed Theory of Collective Responsibility
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index.