Organon F
Volume 29, August 2022, Issue 3, Pages 348–375
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
On the Appropriateness of Holding Morally Accountable
Haozhan Sun – Ivo Dragoun
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29303
Our everyday social interactions involve holding others morally accountable for their wrongdoings. Sometimes such holdings might be inappropriate. For instance, it feels inappropriate if the person holding another morally accountable is in some relevant sense morally compromised. Thus a thief chastising a thief would strike us as somewhat odd. We might, when witnessing such behaviour, want to remind the chastiser that he is not in a position to reprimand others. But what if none of us are ever in such a position? In this paper we will argue that all men are irremediably morally compromised, and conclude that, ultimately, it is never appropriate for us to hold others morally accountable.
Blame; holding accountable; moral standing; the Principle of Plenitude.
Author
Haozhan Sun
Affiliation
Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
Address
Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, 318 Liuhe Rd, Xihu, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Author
Ivo Dragoun
Affiliation
Sussex University
Address
University of Sussex, School of Media, Arts and Humanities Sussex House, Falmer Brighton, BN1 9RH United Kingdom
Received
15 October 2021
Revised
19 July 2022
Accepted
19 August 2022
Published online
24 September 2022
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Sun, H. and Dragoun, I. (2022). On the Appropriateness of Holding Morally Accountable. Organon F, 29(3), 348–375. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29303
Chicago
Sun, Haozhan and Dragoun, Ivo. 2022. "On the Appropriateness of Holding Morally Accountable." Organon F 29 (3): 348–375. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29303
Harvard
Sun, H. and Dragoun, I. (2022). On the Appropriateness of Holding Morally Accountable. Organon F, 29(3), pp. 348–375. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29303
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