The Curious Case of Ronald McDonald's Claim to Rights
An Ontological Account of Differences in Group and Individual Person Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2436503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonie Smith (0000-0002-5073-4294, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Smith Leonie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-28 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Ontology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2196-9663 • E-ISSN: 2196-9655 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/jso-2016-0042 |
| OpenAlex | W2956453478 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
Performative accounts of personhood argue that group agents are persons, fit to be held responsible within the social sphere. Nonetheless, these accounts want to retain a moral distinction between group and individual persons. That: (1) Group-persons can be responsible for their actions qua persons, but that (2) group-persons might nonetheless not have rights equivalent to those of human persons. I present an argument which makes sense of this disanalogy, without recourse to normative claims or additional ontological commitments. I instead ground rights in the different relations in which performative persons stand in relation to one another
Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Group (periodic table · Human rights · Law and economics · Normative · Performative utterance · Personhood · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |