1st Edition
Moral Blackmail Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice
By Ben Colburn
Copyright 2025
82 Pages
by
Routledge
82 Pages
by
Routledge
82 Pages
by
Routledge
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Moral Blackmail: Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice identifies a novel kind of forced action, yet one that is relatively neglected in ethics and moral philosophy. Moral blackmail occurs when someone is forced to do something because someone else has made all its alternatives morally unacceptable.
Ben Colburn explores moral blackmail by first examining existing theories of coercion,... Read more
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
Biography
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).
