'Honor Among (the Beneficiaries of) Thieves'.
Traditional accounts of the fair play principle suggest that, under appropriate conditions, those who benefit from the cooperative labor of others acquire an obligation of repayment. However, these accounts have had little to say about the nature of such obligations within morally or legally problem...
| Published in: | Ethical Theory & Moral Practice Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 385 - 403 |
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Apr2015
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=102077934&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 102077934 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13862820 OEY jtl: Ethical Theory & Moral Practice issn: 13862820 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2015 vid: 18 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 102077934 10.1007/s10677-014-9524-x ppf: 385 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 276KB tig: atl: 'Honor Among (the Beneficiaries of) Thieves'. aug: au: Meketa, Irina affil: Philosophy Department and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive St. Louis 63130-4899 USA su: Fairness Cooperation Collective behavior Duty Social ethics sug: subj: Fairness Cooperation Collective behavior Duty Social ethics keyword: Cooperative scheme Externalities Fair play Free-riding Obligation ab: Traditional accounts of the fair play principle suggest that, under appropriate conditions, those who benefit from the cooperative labor of others acquire an obligation of repayment. However, these accounts have had little to say about the nature of such obligations within morally or legally problematic cooperative schemes, taking the matter to be either straightforward or unimportant. It is neither. The question of what sorts of fair play obligations obtain for those who benefit from illicit cooperative activity is a matter of great complexity and consequence with implications for, inter alia, global economic justice. In this essay, I explore the nature of this obligation within illicit cooperative schemes, specifically those with so-called negative externalities, or deleterious effects on non-members of the scheme. I conclude that the willing beneficiaries of such schemes acquire a fair-play obligation to recognize and respond to their culpability. This reconceptualization of the fair play principle opens up new avenues for exploring the obligations of those who benefit from acts of collective wrongdoing. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Ethical Theory & Moral Practice is a copyright of Springer, 2015. All Rights Reserved. item: Ethical Theory & Moral Practice holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2015 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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