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- Title
Benefiting from the Wrongdoing of Others.
- Authors
Goodin, Robert E.; Barry, Christian
- Abstract
Bracket out the wrong of committing a wrong, or conspiring or colluding or conniving with others in their committing one. Suppose you have done none of those things, and you find yourself merely benefiting from a wrong committed wholly by someone else. What, if anything, is wrong with that? What, if any, duties follow from it? If straightforward restitution were possible - if you could just 'give back' what you received as a result of the wrongdoing to its rightful owner - then matters are morally more straightforward. But in real-world cases that is often impossible, and questions of 'how much, from whom and to whom?' become far more vexing. The beneficiary disgorging all benefits of the wrong is part of the story, but where that is not possible or will not suffice to compensate the victim of wrongdoing we discuss various ways of allocating the cost of making the victim whole, including supplementation from public coffers.
- Subjects
RIGHT &; wrong; UNJUST enrichment; JUSTICE; JUSTICE (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY of psychology; BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2014, Vol 31, Issue 4, p363
- ISSN
0264-3758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/japp.12077