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‘A doctrine quite new and altogether untenable’: defending the beneficiary pays principle
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This article explores the ethical architecture of the ‘beneficiary pays’ principle, which holds that agents can come to possess remedial obligations of corrective justice to others through the involuntary receipt of benefits stemming from injustice. Advocates of the principle face challenges of both persuasion and limitation in seeking to convince those unmoved of its normative force, and to explain in which cases of benefiting from injustice it does and does not give rise to rectificatory ob...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Applied Philosophy Journal website
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 336-348
- Publication date:
- 2014-07-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-5930
- ISSN:
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0264-3758
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:707615
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uuid:12b79e1c-364f-4e9e-a4c3-85801142417b
- Local pid:
- pubs:707615
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707615
- Deposit date:
- 2017-07-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Society for Applied Philosophy
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © Society for Applied Philosophy, 2014. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12073
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