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Dec 22, 2011 · If I am right, the wrongness of coercion is not to be explained by reference to our most lofty or sacred moral values, such as freedom and autonomy, but rather by reference to the wrongness of motivating oneself to do wrong.
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focus my attention on coercion instead of coerciveness....
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Feb 10, 2006 · Coercion is typically thought to carry with it several important implications, including that it diminishes the targeted agent’s freedom and responsibility, and that it is a (pro tanto) wrong and/or violation of right.
Aug 24, 2019 · Kant understands the state’s function as essentially coercive and, in justifying the necessity of state coercion, he adopts a narrow conception of political freedom that formally preserves the right to choose while denying that the range of choices one has can be a matter of justice.
- Benjamin L. McKean
- 2019
Jan 27, 2011 · This paper develops an analysis of the subjective aspect of coercion whereby this hostility is explained. It is argued that coercion is not just a matter of interference with one’s agency, but also affects one’s morality.
- Jan-Willem van der Rijt
- J.W.vanderRijt@uva.nl
- 2011
Jan 22, 2021 · Domestically, coercion theory does not seem able to ground domestic distributive equality in the way it aims to do. Globally, the implications of coercion theory are much more complex, ramified, and ultimately demanding than the ‘global sufficiency, domestic equality’ story suggests.
- Miriam Ronzoni
- 2021
May 16, 2021 · Some of these confusions have been noticed (see, e.g., Green 2016 ); but hardly any work has been done to solve or clarify them. This paper aims to bring some clarity into discussions about the relationship between law and coercion in general, and to the claim that law is coercive in particular.
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since coercion is seemingly held by the law to be synonomous with control, concerns about doing away with or even reducing coercive practices are thought to be meaning less, and pseudo-issues. It is the thesis of this paper that coercion and control must be understood and differentiated, both by the lawyer and the behaviorist.
