Date of Award
8-12-2016
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Andrew I. Cohen
Second Advisor
Christie Hartley
Third Advisor
Andrew Altman
Abstract
Daniel Butt develops an account of corrective responsibilities borne by beneficiaries of injustice. He defends the consistency model. I criticize the vagueness in this model and present two interpretations of benefit from injustice (BFI) responsibilities: obligation and natural duty. The obligation model falls prey to the involuntariness objection. I defend a natural duties model, discussing how natural duties can be circumstantially perfected into directed duties and showing how the natural duties model avoids the involuntariness objection. I also address objections from structural injustice and demandingness.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/8688103
Recommended Citation
Neefus, Suzanne, "A Benefit Argument for Responsibilities to Rectify Injustice." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2016.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/8688103