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This means homing in on the exact moral bad that the concept serves to pick out. Here is a start: coercion is essentially an enemy of freedom, and free-dom is an important human good. So talk of (eudaimonic) coercion serves to track losses of (eudaimonic) freedom. That seems right.
Coercion, when it is coercive, is wrong for a reason having nothing to do with its being coercive. Coerciveness, whatever it is, is some effect that an action or circumstance can have on an individual. Yet I deny that acts of coercion are wrong in virtue of the effect they have on the coerced individual.
To the lawyer, "coercion" is a type of influence reserved by the State and only to be. used with adequate procedural protections. Coercion is verbally described in legal discourse primarily by the absence of other qualities, such as "freedom," "volun tarism," and "free will."
sufficient for coercion, and to what extent valid consent must be conditional upon background conditions. Two things follow from adopting a moralized baseline. The first is that adopting a moralized baseline tends to embed and explain the view that coercion is intrinsically wrong.6
It proposes that all three be understood as not ‘moralized’ (not as containing immorality as part of their very meaning). It proposes that coercion (being forced, compelled or constrained) be understood as either having no choice or as having no acceptable choice (the notion of coercion is no clearer than that of an ‘acceptable’ choice).
Onora Sylvia O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve (1941- ) is a leading scholar of Kant’s moral philoso-phy. She studied at Oxford University, then at Harvard, where John Rawls served as her doctoral advisor. She was a professor of philosophy for many years at the University of Essex. As the title suggests, this piece attempts to provide ...
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right to x on easier terms, or Q knows that P would have given x to Q on easier terms, if the chance had not arisen to trade x for y."11 3. "At the most general level, there are two views about coercion. One view holds that coercion claims are essentially value-free, that whether one is coerced into doing something is an ordinary empirical ...
