The global consequence of participatory responsibility

The aim of this article is to introduce and defend a revised conception of responsibility - namely, participatory responsibility. It starts from the insight that some pressing problems of global injustice render our common conception of responsibility useless. As an alternative the author mainly dis...

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Published in:Journal of global ethics 2009-04, Vol.5 (1), p.43-56
Main Author: Hahn, Henning
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
basic-rights approach
Cosmopolitanism
David Miller
global justice
Iris Marion Young
Justice
Miller, David
participation
Pogge, Thomas
Responsibility
responsibility for justice
Rights
structural justice
Thomas Pogge
Transnationalism
Young, Iris Marion
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Summary:The aim of this article is to introduce and defend a revised conception of responsibility - namely, participatory responsibility. It starts from the insight that some pressing problems of global injustice render our common conception of responsibility useless. As an alternative the author mainly discusses Iris Marion Young's social connection model of responsibility. However, Young's approach becomes unconvincing in addressing and weighing specific duties. The author therefore adds a basic rights approach to her conception and argues that mere participation in a basic-rights-violating structure creates superordinated responsibilities for justice. Thus institutions and individual persons hold responsibility not because they have intentionally caused a foreseeable wrong, but because they have participated in, and thereby maintained, a social structure which has morally unacceptable effects.
ISSN:1744-9626
1744-9634
DOI:10.1080/17449620902765336