Responsibility and coercion (original) (raw)

Routledge eBooks, 2023

Abstract

In law and morality, legal and ethical practices, coercion is taken to a ect the agent’s responsibility for action, but there are disagreements about how and why this is so. These disagreements depend on the ways the key concepts of coercion, agency, and responsibility are characterized and related. 1 This chapter departs from the current distinction between physical and volitional coercion by refocusing on the relation of dominance that coercion aims to establish. Coercion is the result of a struggle of independent wills, in which one is forced to submit to another, but the modes of subjugation vary, and some build upon oppressive social, cultural, and economic structures. [...]

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