Moral Blackmail

Moral Blackmail: Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice explores a novel kind of forced action which occurs when someone is forced to do something because someone else has made its alternatives morally unacceptable. It will be of interest to those researching political philosophy, ethical theory, applied ethics and politics.

Autorentext

Ben Colburn is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where he was Head of Philosophy from 2017 to 2020. He is the author of Autonomy and Liberalism (2010) and the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy (2022).

Klappentext

Moral Blackmail: Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice explores a novel kind of forced action which occurs when someone is forced to do something because someone else has made its alternatives morally unacceptable. It will be of interest to those researching political philosophy, ethical theory, applied ethics and politics.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Moral Blackmail 2. The Force of Morality 3. Explanatory Responsibility 4. Evaluative Responsibility 5. Passing the Buck in Intergenerational Justice 6. Taking up the Slack in Global Justice 7. Conclusion