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Citizenship and Partiality: Group Membership and the Bounds of Morality

Winckler-Olick, Hannah
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Traditional moral theories share a commitment to basic tenets of impartial equality: each person is equally morally worthy. In practice, however, it is generally considered to be a requirement that moral agents act in certain special ways toward their loved ones. This "permissible partiality" is sometimes extended to groups rather than individuals. In this paper, I discuss various suggestions for how partiality might be justified and how it might be applied to groups of citizens. I argue that partiality can provide some basis for explaining the bonds of shared citizenship, but that these bonds must adhere to the basic tenets of morality. I discuss this suggestion through a proposed hybrid model of partiality.
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2018-05-01
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Tucker, Chris
Freiman, Christopher
Schwartz, Joel
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