Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for Individuals

by Stephanie Collins

Moral duties are regularly attributed to groups. In the media or on the street, we might hear that a specific country has a moral duty to defend human rights, that environmentalists have a moral duty to push for global systemic reform, or that the affluent have a moral duty to alleviate poverty. Do such attributions make conceptual sense or are they mere political rhetoric? And what does that imply for the individual members of these groups? Group...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198840276
• ISBN13: 9780198840275
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"