Authority, Co-Operation, and Accountability Bazargan-Forward Saba
Authority, Co-Operation, and Accountability Bazargan-Forward Saba How should we decide a single employee's accountability in a corporation that commits egregious wrongs? Or a single participant in a…
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Authority, Co-Operation, and Accountability Bazargan-Forward Saba
How should we decide a single employee's accountability in a corporation that commits egregious wrongs? Or a single participant in a lynching? What about a single solider fighting in an unjust war?
Saba Bazargan-Forward makes the case for thinking that distinct aspects of human agency, normally wrapped up in a single person, can be 'distributed' practically across different people. We need a way to make sense of individual moral accountability in cases where multiple individuals are cooperating in a way that results in a wrongful harm.Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability develops a novel strategy for addressing this issue. He argues that we 'distribute' agency routinely, by forming promises, by making requests, by issuing demands, and by undertaking shared action.
The resulting division of agential labour makes possible a distinctive way in which one person can be