On complicity and compromise
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On complicity and compromise
Oxford University Press, 2013
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: pbk ISBN 9780198746874
Description
'Taxpayers are complicit in the illegal wars waged by their governments.' 'Corporations are complicit in human rights abuses perpetrated by their suppliers.' 'Aid workers who compromise with militias are complicit in their reign of terror.' We hear such allegations all the time. Yet there are many ways of being mixed up with the wrongdoing of others. They are not all on a par, morally; some are worse than others. Furthermore, complicitly contributing to wrongdoing,
while still wrong in itself, might nonetheless be the right thing to do if that is the only way to achieve some greater good. Drawing on philosophy, law and political science, and on a wealth of practical experience delivering emergency medical services in conflict-ridden settings, Lepora and Goodin
untangle the complexities surrounding compromise and complicity: carefully cataloguing their many varieties; identifying the dimensions along which those differ; and explaining why some are morally more worrying than others. Lepora and Goodin summarize their analysis in a formula that can be used as a decision heuristic for assessing any given act of complicity. They go on to illustrate its practical usefulness by applying it first to some stylized philosophical examples and then, in a more
sustained way, to two vexing cases of complicity in the real world: the complicity of humanitarian aid organizations with genocidaires controlling Rwandan refugee camps; and the complicity of physicians treating patients who are being subjected to torture. Both rigorous and rooted, this is a book for
philosophers and practitioners alike.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: A Messy Moral Landscape
- 2. Compromise as a Template
- 3. Complicity and Its Conceptual Cousins
- 4. Grading Engagement with Wrongdoing: Dimensions of Difference
- 5. Responsibility for Complicity: A Minimum Threshold
- 6. Assessing Complicit Actions: A General Framework
- 7. Organizational Complicity: Rwandan Refugee Camps
- 8. Individual Complicity: The Tortured Patient
- 9. Conclusion: Complicity is as Complicity Does
- Index
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780199677900
Description
'Taxpayers are complicit in the illegal wars waged by their governments.' 'Corporations are complicit in human rights abuses perpetrated by their suppliers.' 'Aid workers who compromise with militias are complicit in their reign of terror.' We hear such allegations all the time. Yet there are many ways of being mixed up with the wrongdoing of others. They are not all on a par, morally; some are worse than others. Furthermore, complicitly contributing to
wrongdoing, while still wrong in itself, might nonetheless be the right thing to do if that is the only way to achieve some greater good. Drawing on philosophy, law and political science, and on a wealth of practical experience delivering emergency medical services in conflict-ridden settings, Lepora and
Goodin untangle the complexities surrounding compromise and complicity: carefully cataloguing their many varieties; identifying the dimensions along which those differ; and explaining why some are morally more worrying than others. Lepora and Goodin summarize their analysis in a formula that can be used as a decision heuristic for assessing any given act of complicity. They go on to illustrate its practical usefulness by applying it first to some stylized philosophical examples and then, in a
more sustained way, to two vexing cases of complicity in the real world: the complicity of humanitarian aid organizations with genocidaires controlling Rwandan refugee camps; and the complicity of physicians treating patients who are being subjected to torture. Both rigorous and rooted, this is a
book for philosophers and practitioners alike.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: A Messy Moral Landscape
- 2. Compromise as a Template
- 3. Complicity and Its Conceptual Cousins
- 4. Grading Engagement with Wrongdoing: Dimensions of Difference
- 5. Responsibility for Complicity: A Minimum Threshold
- 6. Assessing Complicit Actions: A General Framework
- 7. Organizational Complicity: Rwandan Refugee Camps
- 8. Individual Complicity: The Tortured Patient
- 9. Conclusion: Complicity is as Complicity Does
- Index
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