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- Title
The Morality of Corporate Persons.
- Authors
McWhorter, Ladelle
- Abstract
This essay provides a genealogy of corporate personhood as it exists currently in US law and places moral personhood in a similar genealogical context. This treatment demonstrates that the two are inextricably intertwined in both conception and institutionalized practices. We would do well to dismantle both; meanwhile, however, corporate personhood's implicit illiberal notion of collective mentality and responsibility may suggest possibilities for establishing collective counterforces to oppose activities of transnational for-profit corporations and mitigate their devastating political, economic, and environmental effects upon actual people and the ecosystems upon which we depend.
- Subjects
CORPORATE personhood; GENEALOGY; COLLECTIVE mentality; RESPONSIBILITY; AMERICAN law
- Publication
Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2017, Vol 55, p126
- ISSN
0038-4283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/sjp.12226