Paper's abstract

Christian Nadeau, Consequentialism and collective responsibility
In this article, I wish to examine the consequentialist model when applied to moral problems of collective agents, more precisely to collective responsibility. Typical discussions of collective responsibility take place in a situation where groups in themselves, or their members, are blamed for a fault or praised for a just action. This work will examine the matter in a different light, in that it will define responsibility as a moral project. Furthermore, this article offers a consequentialist version of the collective responsibility principle that can answer to the well-knowned objection following which consequentialism is too demanding for the agents.


Key Words : collective responsibility
t. 48, 2004 : p. 355-368

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