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Getting Our Act Together - A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations (Paperback)
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Getting Our Act Together - A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
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Winner of the 2022 North American Society for Social Philosophy
Book Award Together we can often achieve things that are impossible
to do on our own. We can prevent something bad from happening, or
we can produce something good, even if none of us could do it by
ourselves. But when are we morally required to do something of
moral importance together with others? This book develops an
original theory of collective moral obligations. These are
obligations that individual moral agents hold jointly but not as
unified collective agents. The theory does not stipulate a new type
of moral obligation but rather suggests that to think of some of
our obligations as joint or collective is the best way of making
sense of our intuitions regarding collective moral action problems.
Where we have reason to believe that our efforts are most efficient
as part of a collective endeavor, we may incur collective
obligations together with others who are similarly placed as long
as we are able to establish compossible individual contributory
strategies towards that goal. The book concludes with a discussion
of 'massively shared obligations' to major-scale moral problems
such as global poverty. Getting Out Act Together: A Theory of
Collective Moral Obligations will appeal to researchers and
advanced students working in moral, political and social
philosophy, philosophy of action, social epistemology and
philosophy of social science.
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