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Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age

by Christopher Kutz

Individual responsibility within collective harm

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Individual responsibility within collective harm

Christopher Kutz examines how personal guilt relates to harms produced through social, economic, and political institutions. The book develops a philosophical account of individuals’ connections to the groups they participate in, then brings that account to bear on contemporary moral theory. Its central question is how responsibility should be understood when wrongdoing is collective, yet individuals remain part of the institutions and groups involved. The discussion places ethics alongside law, making complicity a framework for considering the overlap between individual action and shared responsibility.

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  • Readers interested in philosophical approaches to ethics and individual guilt.
  • Those studying collective responsibility, social institutions, or natural law.
  • Readers seeking a theoretical discussion that connects moral theory with law.

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ComplicityCollective responsibilityIndividual guiltSocial and political institutionsEthics and law

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Book overview

We live in a morally flawed world. Our lives are complicated by what other people do, and by the harms that flow from our social, economic, and political institutions. Our relations as individuals to these collective harms constitute the domain of complicity. This book examines the relationship between collective responsibility and individual guilt. It presents a rigorous philosophical account of the nature of our relations to the social groups in which we participate, and uses that account in a discussion of contemporary moral theory.
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