Collective responsibility

Journal of Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 179-198

  Narveson, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ascription; Collective; Freedom of association; Group rights; Individual; Indivisibility; Irreducibility; Membership; Ownership; Participation; Responsibility; Voluntariness

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049111407     PISSN: 13824554     EISSN: 15728609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015823716891     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Jan Narveson, "Collectives Rights?," Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence IV (1991), pp. 329-345.
2. Robin Gildert, "Acknowledging Genocide - a Retributivist Account of Collective Moral Responsibility," presented at the meetings of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, McMaster University, Ontario, October 29, 2000. Mr. Gildert kindly supplied me with the text of this paper upon request. The paper will be in a collection published by Rudopi Press, forthcoming.
3. Gildert, "Acknowledging Genocide - a Retributivist Account of Collective Moral Responsibility" (forthcoming).
4. Footnote by Gildert, "Acknowledging Genocide - a Retributivist Account of Collective Moral Responsibility" : "I would think that the death camp worker receiving the greater punishment correlates with the death camp victim's moral worth being upheld both for that person being the recipient of unjust treatment in the camp and for that person's worth as a member of a certain collective being denigrated in the genocide. I would also say that if there's a person that escaped from Germany before the war and never saw a camp then that person's worth as a human being would be upheld with the German collective being held responsible for the genocide."
5. Gildert, "Acknowledging Genocide - a Retributivist Account of Collective Moral Responsibility" (forthcoming).
6. For what has become the locus classicus of investigations into this, see Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority (News York: Harper & Row, 1969).
7. These quotations are from Hillel Steiner, "Territorial Justice," in Margaret Moore (ed.), National Self-Determination and Secession (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 63-64.
8. Steiner, "Territorial Justice," p. 67.
9. Steiner, "Territorial Justice", p. 65.