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Individual responsibility for collectively committed harms
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Individual responsibility for collectively committed harms
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ETD_2448
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000052977
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eng
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theses
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Philosophy
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War--Moral and ethical aspects
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Just war doctrine
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Ethics
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Collective behavior
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I develop an account that addresses the moral permissibility of and responsibility for participating in cooperative ventures in which each member contributes marginally to a substantial, aggregate harm. I argue that a basis for assessing the morally permissibility of and responsibility for participation in such collectives should not be limited to the intentions and the causal contributions of the participant, but should also include the purpose – what I call the ‘functional role’ of the individual in the collective venture. This account has the benefit of grounding a reductionist metaphysical analysis of cooperative collective action. After developing such an account, I apply it to a particular type of cooperative, collective activity, viz., warfare. The account of contributory moral responsibility I develop provides a basis by which to ascertain moral responsibility for marginal contributions by combatants participating in an unjust war.
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iv, 211 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Vita
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by Saba Bazargan
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Bazargan
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Saba
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Doug
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Coleman
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Jules
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Christopher
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2010
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2010
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Open
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Bazargan
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Saba
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2010-01-29 02:44:57
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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