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  title info:
    title: Getting our act together
    sub title: a theory of collective moral obligations
  name:
    name part: Schwenkenbecher, Anne
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Together, we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something bad from happening or we can produce something good, even if none of us could do it by herself. But when are we morally required to do something of moral importance together with others? This book develops an original theory of collective moral obligations. These are obligations that individual moral agents hold jointly, but not as unified collective agents. The theory does not stipulate a new type of moral obligation, but rather suggests that to think of some of our obligations as joint or collective is the best way of making sense of our intuitions regarding collective moral action problems. Where we have reason to believe that our efforts are most efficient as part of a collective endeavor we may incur collective obligations together with others who are similarly placed as long as we are able to establish compossible individual contributory strategies towards that goal. The book concludes with a discussion of "massively shared obligations" to major-scale moral problems such as global poverty. Getting Out Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in moral, political, and social philosophy, philosophy of action, social epistemology, and philosophy of social science.
  note: Anne Schwenkenbecher.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-172) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Responsibility
  subject:
    topic: Social groups
  classification: BJ1451 .S345 2021
  classification: 170
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory
  identifier: 9780367561123
  identifier: 0367561123
  identifier: 9781003097136
  identifier: 2020037257
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200817
    record change date: 20211018101157.0
    record identifier: in00004400417