Racism and Moral Pollution

Authors

Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University School of LawFollow

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Description

This anthology presents the best recent philosophical analyses of moral, political, and legal responsibility of groups and their members. Motivated by reflection on such events as the Holocaust, the exploding Ford Pintos, the My Lai massacre, and apartheid in South Africa, the essays consider two important questions: What collective efforts could have prevented these large-scale social harms? And is some group to blame and, if so, how is blame to be apportioned?

Source Publication

Collective Responsibility: Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics

Source Editors/Authors

Larry May, Stacey Hoffman

Publication Date

1991

Recommended Citation

Appiah, Kwame Anthony, "Racism and Moral Pollution" (1991). Faculty Chapters. 194.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/194