TY - JOUR
T1 - Costly authority and transferred responsibility
AU - Benbaji, Yitzhak
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Revisionist just war theorists maintain that, soldiers, and not merely their leaders or superiors, bear moral responsibility for objectively wrongful harms imposed in pursuit of an unjust war. The conviction that underlies revisionism is that a person's responsibility for her intentional, objectively unjustified, killing is non-transferable. In this essay I aim to elaborate a specific counterexample to this general claim. I will argue that in cases that I characterize as "special authority cases", the moral responsibility for the unintended outcomes that a person brings about because of following the orders of a legitimate authority is transferred to the authority.
AB - Revisionist just war theorists maintain that, soldiers, and not merely their leaders or superiors, bear moral responsibility for objectively wrongful harms imposed in pursuit of an unjust war. The conviction that underlies revisionism is that a person's responsibility for her intentional, objectively unjustified, killing is non-transferable. In this essay I aim to elaborate a specific counterexample to this general claim. I will argue that in cases that I characterize as "special authority cases", the moral responsibility for the unintended outcomes that a person brings about because of following the orders of a legitimate authority is transferred to the authority.
KW - Jonathan Parry
KW - Legitimate authority
KW - Liability
KW - Massimo Renzo
KW - Responsibility
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100560303&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11098-021-01615-2
DO - 10.1007/s11098-021-01615-2
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AN - SCOPUS:85100560303
SN - 0031-8116
VL - 178
SP - 3579
EP - 3595
JO - Philosophical Studies
JF - Philosophical Studies
IS - 11
ER -