Goodin, R;
Pasternak, A;
(2016)
Intending to Benefit from Wrongdoing.
Politics, Philosophy & Economics
, 15
(3)
pp. 280-297.
10.1177/1470594X16653624.
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Abstract
Some believe that the mere beneficiaries of wrongdoing of others ought to disgorge their tainted benefits. Others deny that claim. Both sides of this debate concentrate on unavoidable beneficiaries of the wrongdoing of others, who are presumed themselves to be innocent by virtue of the fact they have neither contributed to the wrong nor could they have avoided receiving the benefit. But as we show, this presumption is mistaken for unavoidable beneficiaries who intend in certain ways to benefit from wrongdoing, and who have therefore done something wrong in forming and acting on such an intention.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Intending to Benefit from Wrongdoing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1470594X16653624 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470594X16653624 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. The published version of record is available from the SAGE journals website at http://ppe.sagepub.com/content/15/3/280 |
| Keywords: | complicity; historical wrongdoing; innocent beneficiaries; intentional states; wrongful benefits |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1496984 |
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