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2025-1 Seminar Ethics

Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin. On Complicity and Compromise (2013) Organizational Complicity Rwandan Refugee CampsIn any complex case of grievous wrongdoing, the wrongdoers usually have some help. Other people instigate and encourage, aid and abet, facilitate, permit, or overlook the wrongdoing. By contributing in such ways, people can become complicit in that wrongdoing.The first thing to say..

Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin. On Complicity and Compromise (2013)Assessing Acts of Complicity A General FrameworkHow morally blameworthy an act of complicity is is a function of four things:the moral badness of the principal wrongdoing;whether (and, insofar as it is scalar, by how much) the secondary agent crosses the threshold of moral responsibility for having contributed to it;how much of ..

Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin. On Complicity and Compromise (2013) Responsibility for Complicity A Minimum Threshold Wrongdoing, whether by doing wrong yourself or by contributing to the wrong done by others, must always involve a certain sort of act together with a certain sort of mental state. The issue that lies at the heart of this chapter is precisely which sort.The ‘intention’ side: you..

Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin. On Complicity and Compromise (2013) Grading Engagement with Wrongdoing Dimensions of DifferenceOne pertains to the role the agent plays in doing or contributing to the doing of the wrong—the way in which her acts contribute to or partially constitute the wrong. The other basic dimension pertains to the mental stance the agent takes towards the principal wrongdoin..

Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin. On Complicity and Compromise (2013) Complicity and its Conceptual Cousins Among the distinct practices that we separate out for special attention are ‘connivance’, ‘contiguity’, ‘collusion’, ‘collaboration’, ‘condoning’, ‘consorting’ ‘conspiring’ and ‘full joint wrongdoing’. After having separated out all of those conceptual cousins, we will be left with a slight..

Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin. On Complicity and Compromise (2013) Compromise as a TemplateCompromising is something we do all the time. Maybe ‘compromise’ is itself too grand a term to apply to all of the mundane adjustments that we make to one another in everyday life. But it is not only doctors and lawyers, politicians and humanitarians who find themselves having to compromise on matters of..

Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin. On Complicity and Compromise (2013) Introduction: A Messy Moral Landscape 1.1 Two Voices, One Problem At the end of a medical information session in a very poor war-torn country, a young soldier came up to me. He asked whether he should use condoms when engaging in rape. I answered ‘yes’. I was in little doubt that he should use condoms all the time, and in even ..

2025-1 Descartes 1. Cavendish allows that there exists conscious mentality, but she argues that much of our conscious intelligent thinking would not take place without unconscious "fairies" that "set" our conscious thoughts "in order." Explain her argument and illustrate it with an example.Strawson and Cavendish both think that there are a lot of familiar instances of mentality that are not cons..

2025-1 Descartes 1. Descartes argues that bodies do not have features like color, taste, sound, scent. What is his argument? What is the external world like, for Descartes, if bodies in fact exist? How does Descartes' view represent a dramatic turn in the history of science?He argues that the most basic features of body are size, shape, and extension. That is to say – color, taste, sound, smell,..