Benefiting from Injustice and the Common-Source Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8078729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Göran Duus‐otterström (0000-0001-9133-7300, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1067-1081 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1386-2820 • E-ISSN: 1572-8447 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10677-017-9845-7 |
| OpenAlex | W2767683891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
According to the Beneficiary Pays Principle, innocent beneficiaries of an injustice stand in a special moral relationship with the victims of the same injustice. Critics have argued that it is normatively irrelevant that a beneficiary and a victim are connected in virtue of the same unjust 'source'. The aim of this paper is to defend the Beneficiary Pays Principle against this criticism. Locating the principle against the backdrop of corrective justice, it argues that the principle is correct in saying that innocent beneficiaries of an injustice may have an extra reason to assist the victims of that injustice. This is because it may be necessary to defeat the immoral plan of the perpetrator of the injustice and because it may satisfy weak restitution. The conclusion is that the principle is distinctive from related views, such as that property should be returned to its rightful owner or that tainted benefits should be given up for general use
Beneficiary · Criticism · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Injustice · Law and economics · Philosophy of medicine · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Virtue · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Law · Philosophy
Historical Emissions and Free-Riding
Corrective vs. Distributive Justice
On the Relationship Between Corrective and Distributive Justice
‘A Doctrine Quite New and Altogether Untenable’
Benefiting from Injustice and Brute Luck
Give it up for climate change
The problem of past emissions and intergenerational debts
Affirmative Action, Historical Injustice, and the Concept of Beneficiaries
Distributing Responsibilities
Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change
Contributing and Benefiting
Intending to benefit from wrongdoing
Should the beneficiaries pay
Disgorging the Fruits of Historical Wrongdoing
Global Environment and International Inequality
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |