Avia Pasternak
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 334596 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Avia Pasternak |
| NOMBRES | Avia |
| APELLIDO | Pasternak |
| FIRMA | PASTERNAK A |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0196-8876 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Response to critics
In this piece I respond to the critiques raised by the contributors to this symposium.Keywords: Collective responsibilitycitizenshipintentional participation Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. In reality, shareholders are shielded from personal responsibility through the practice of limited corporate liability. Kutz rejects this practice and I share his concerns (Kutz, Citation2000, pp. 337…
Criminal Wrongdoing, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of Unjust States
A Duty to Resist
Calls for a “nonideal turn” in political philosophy are increasingly common in the field. Political philosophers are repeatedly asked to step out of their ivory towers and get their hands dirty with the real moral and political crises that surround them. These calls are not surprising, given the dysfunctionality of politics in many states of the world—including prospering democracies—and the bleak promises their futures hold. But the task of doin…
Not in Their Name
Political Rioting
On April 12, 2015, three Baltimore police officers arrested a 25-year-old African American named Freddie Gray, on the suspicion of possessing a switchblade knife.A video recording of the arrest shows Gray screaming in pain as he is being dragged into a police van.Sometime during the arrest Gray sustained a spinal cord injury.Four days later he died. 1 Gray's funeral was held two weeks later at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore.In the afterno…
Fair Play and Wrongful Benefits
According to the fair play defense of political obligations citizens have a reciprocity-based duty to share the costs involved in the production of public goods. But sometimes, states produce collective goods through wrongdoing. For example, sometimes states’ wrongful immigration policies can contribute to the welfare of their own populations. Do citizens have duties of reciprocity in light of such wrongful benefits? I argue that the answer to th…
From Corporate Moral Agency to Corporate Moral Rights
Recent literature suggests that organizational entities, such as states and business corporations, can qualify as moral agents. Does it follow that, as members of our moral community, group agents are entitled to moral protections? This article explores the connection between groups’ moral agency and moral rights. I argue that corporate moral agency does not, in itself, ground a group’s claim for moral protections. Nevertheless, a group agent can…
Intending to benefit from wrongdoing
Some believe that the mere beneficiaries of wrongdoing of others ought to disgorge their tainted benefits. Others deny that claim. Both sides of this debate concentrate on unavoidable beneficiaries of the wrongdoing of others, who are presumed themselves to be innocent by virtue of the fact they have neither contributed to the wrong nor could they have avoided receiving the benefit. But as we show, this presumption is mistaken for unavoidable ben…
Cosmopolitan justice and the league of democracies
Cosmopolitan justice calls for extensive institutional transformations at the international level. But in the absence of a global enforcing authority, such transformations are bound to be hampered by a range of obstacles, including non-compliance and coordination problems. What solutions can a cosmopolitan thinker offer to address these challenges? In answering this question, the paper focuses on the role that international cooperation between th…
Limiting States' Corporate Responsibility
The Collective Responsibility of Democratic Publics
Towards the end of her seminal work on the notion of representation Hanna Pitkin makes the following observation: At the end of the Second World War and during the Nuremberg trials there was much speculation about the war guilt of the German people. [...] Many people might argue the responsibility of the German people even though a Nazi government was not representative. We might agree, however, that in the case of a representative government the…
Sharing the costs of political injustices
It is commonly thought that when democratic states act wrongly, they should bear the costs of the harm they cause. However, since states are collective agents, their financial burdens pass on to their individual citizens. This fact raises important questions about the proper distribution of the state’s collective responsibility for its unjust policies. This article identifies two opposing models for sharing this collective responsibility in democ…
Sanctioning Liberal Democracies
This article examines when economic sanctions should be imposed on liberal democracies that violate democratic norms. The argument is made from the social-liberal standpoint, which recognises the moral status of political communities. While social liberals rarely refer to the use of economic sanctions as a pressure tool, by examining why they restrict military intervention and economic aid to cases of massive human rights violations or acute huma…
Political Rioting
On April 12, 2015, three Baltimore police officers arrested a 25-year-old African American named Freddie Gray, on the suspicion of possessing a switchblade knife.A video recording of the arrest shows Gray screaming in pain as he is being dragged into a police van.Sometime during the arrest Gray sustained a spinal cord injury.Four days later he died. 1 Gray's funeral was held two weeks later at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore.In the afterno…
Limiting States' Corporate Responsibility
Sharing the costs of political injustices
It is commonly thought that when democratic states act wrongly, they should bear the costs of the harm they cause. However, since states are collective agents, their financial burdens pass on to their individual citizens. This fact raises important questions about the proper distribution of the state’s collective responsibility for its unjust policies. This article identifies two opposing models for sharing this collective responsibility in democ…
Intending to benefit from wrongdoing
Some believe that the mere beneficiaries of wrongdoing of others ought to disgorge their tainted benefits. Others deny that claim. Both sides of this debate concentrate on unavoidable beneficiaries of the wrongdoing of others, who are presumed themselves to be innocent by virtue of the fact they have neither contributed to the wrong nor could they have avoided receiving the benefit. But as we show, this presumption is mistaken for unavoidable ben…
Sanctioning Liberal Democracies
This article examines when economic sanctions should be imposed on liberal democracies that violate democratic norms. The argument is made from the social-liberal standpoint, which recognises the moral status of political communities. While social liberals rarely refer to the use of economic sanctions as a pressure tool, by examining why they restrict military intervention and economic aid to cases of massive human rights violations or acute huma…
Cosmopolitan justice and the league of democracies
Cosmopolitan justice calls for extensive institutional transformations at the international level. But in the absence of a global enforcing authority, such transformations are bound to be hampered by a range of obstacles, including non-compliance and coordination problems. What solutions can a cosmopolitan thinker offer to address these challenges? In answering this question, the paper focuses on the role that international cooperation between th…
Criminal Wrongdoing, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of Unjust States
Sanctioning Liberal Democracies
This article examines when economic sanctions should be imposed on liberal democracies that violate democratic norms. The argument is made from the social-liberal standpoint, which recognises the moral status of political communities. While social liberals rarely refer to the use of economic sanctions as a pressure tool, by examining why they restrict military intervention and economic aid to cases of massive human rights violations or acute huma…
Sharing the costs of political injustices
It is commonly thought that when democratic states act wrongly, they should bear the costs of the harm they cause. However, since states are collective agents, their financial burdens pass on to their individual citizens. This fact raises important questions about the proper distribution of the state’s collective responsibility for its unjust policies. This article identifies two opposing models for sharing this collective responsibility in democ…
The Collective Responsibility of Democratic Publics
Towards the end of her seminal work on the notion of representation Hanna Pitkin makes the following observation: At the end of the Second World War and during the Nuremberg trials there was much speculation about the war guilt of the German people. [...] Many people might argue the responsibility of the German people even though a Nazi government was not representative. We might agree, however, that in the case of a representative government the…
Cosmopolitan justice and the league of democracies
Cosmopolitan justice calls for extensive institutional transformations at the international level. But in the absence of a global enforcing authority, such transformations are bound to be hampered by a range of obstacles, including non-compliance and coordination problems. What solutions can a cosmopolitan thinker offer to address these challenges? In answering this question, the paper focuses on the role that international cooperation between th…
Limiting States' Corporate Responsibility
Intending to benefit from wrongdoing
Some believe that the mere beneficiaries of wrongdoing of others ought to disgorge their tainted benefits. Others deny that claim. Both sides of this debate concentrate on unavoidable beneficiaries of the wrongdoing of others, who are presumed themselves to be innocent by virtue of the fact they have neither contributed to the wrong nor could they have avoided receiving the benefit. But as we show, this presumption is mistaken for unavoidable ben…
Fair Play and Wrongful Benefits
According to the fair play defense of political obligations citizens have a reciprocity-based duty to share the costs involved in the production of public goods. But sometimes, states produce collective goods through wrongdoing. For example, sometimes states’ wrongful immigration policies can contribute to the welfare of their own populations. Do citizens have duties of reciprocity in light of such wrongful benefits? I argue that the answer to th…
From Corporate Moral Agency to Corporate Moral Rights
Recent literature suggests that organizational entities, such as states and business corporations, can qualify as moral agents. Does it follow that, as members of our moral community, group agents are entitled to moral protections? This article explores the connection between groups’ moral agency and moral rights. I argue that corporate moral agency does not, in itself, ground a group’s claim for moral protections. Nevertheless, a group agent can…
Political Rioting
On April 12, 2015, three Baltimore police officers arrested a 25-year-old African American named Freddie Gray, on the suspicion of possessing a switchblade knife.A video recording of the arrest shows Gray screaming in pain as he is being dragged into a police van.Sometime during the arrest Gray sustained a spinal cord injury.Four days later he died. 1 Gray's funeral was held two weeks later at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore.In the afterno…
Not in Their Name
Criminal Wrongdoing, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of Unjust States
A Duty to Resist
Calls for a “nonideal turn” in political philosophy are increasingly common in the field. Political philosophers are repeatedly asked to step out of their ivory towers and get their hands dirty with the real moral and political crises that surround them. These calls are not surprising, given the dysfunctionality of politics in many states of the world—including prospering democracies—and the bleak promises their futures hold. But the task of doin…
Response to critics
In this piece I respond to the critiques raised by the contributors to this symposium.Keywords: Collective responsibilitycitizenshipintentional participation Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. In reality, shareholders are shielded from personal responsibility through the practice of limited corporate liability. Kutz rejects this practice and I share his concerns (Kutz, Citation2000, pp. 337…
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