Imperfect Duties, Group Obligations, and Beneficence

There is virtually no philosophical consensus on what, exactly, imperfect duties are. In this paper, I lay out three criteria which I argue any adequate account of imperfect duties should satisfy. Using beneficence as a leading example, I suggest that existing accounts of imperfect duties will have...

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Main Author: Schroeder, S. Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2014
In: Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2014, Volume: 11, Issue: 5, Pages: 557-584
Further subjects:B Murphy, Liam
B Beneficence
B Collective Responsibility
B group agency
B imperfect duties
B discursive dilemma
B Singer, Peter
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