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'The moral irrelevance of moral coercion'
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4754-6847
2021 (English)In: Philosophical Studies, ISSN 0031-8116, E-ISSN 1573-0883, Vol. 178, p. 3465-3482Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

An agent A morally coerces another agent, B, when A manipulates non-epistemological facts in order that B's moral commitments enjoin B to do what A wants B to do, and B is motivated by these commitments. It is widely argued that forced choices arising from moral coercion are morally distinct from forced choices arising from moral duress or happenstance. On these accounts, the fact of being coerced bears on what an agent may do, the voluntariness of her actions, and/or her accountability for any harms that result from her actions (where accountability includes liability to defensive harm, punishment, blame and compensation). This paper does not provide an account of the wrongness of moral coercion. Rather, I argue that, whatever the correct account of its wrongness, the mere fact of being coerced has no bearing on what the agent may do, on the voluntariness of her action, or her accountability for any resultant harm, compared to otherwise identical cases arising from duress and happenstance.

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2021. Vol. 178, p. 3465-3482
Keywords [en]
Moral coercion, Moral responsibility, Duress, Accountability, Liability, Human Shields
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Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-192589DOI: 10.1007/s11098-021-01609-0ISI: 000616169900001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-192589DiVA, id: diva2:1547286
Available from: 2021-04-26 Created: 2021-04-26 Last updated: 2022-03-23Bibliographically approved

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