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Ferguson, Benjamin (2021) Are we all exploiters? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 103 (3). pp. 535-546. doi:10.1111/phpr.12730 ISSN 0031-8205.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12730
Abstract
This paper argues that two single‐factor accounts of exploitation are inadequate and instead defends a two‐factor account. Purely distributive accounts of exploitation, which equate exploitation with unfair transaction, make exploitation pervasive and cannot deliver the intuition that exploiters are blameworthy. Recent, non‐distributive alternatives, which make unfairness unnecessary for exploitation, largely avoid these problems, but their arguments for the non‐necessity of unfairness are unconvincing. This paper defends a two factor account according to which A exploits B iff A gains unfairly from B and either A believes that the gains he receives in the transaction wrong B, or A is culpably unaware that the gains he receives in the transaction wrong B. This account avoids the problems of non‐distributive approaches and also delivers the intuition that exploiters are blameworthy.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Exploitation, Conduct of life | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0031-8205 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 103 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 535-546 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/phpr.12730 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2020 The Authors. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Philosophy and Phenonmenological Research Inc | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 August 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 September 2020 | ||||||||
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