Download This PaperRecent Debates on Victims’ Duties to Resist Their Oppression
Philosophy Compass, Volume 15, Issue 2. DOI:10.1111/phc3.12648, 2019
10 Pages Posted: 23 Jun 2020
Date Written: December 4, 2019
Abstract
This article reviews recent arguments in contemporary political philosophy on victims' duties to resist their oppression. It begins by presenting two approaches to these duties. First, that victims' duties are self‐regarding duties that victims owe to their self‐respect or to their well‐being, and second, that victims' duties are other‐regarding duties that arise from victims' duties of justice or of assistance. The second part elaborates on what resistance consists in. The article then considers and responds to two prominent objections to arguments for victims' duties: that they are too demanding, and that they are unfair and exploitative. It concludes by gesturing towards future areas of engagement, in particular, theorising the agents and mechanisms of oppression, and more explicitly engaging with methodological debates about non‐ideal theory.
Keywords: oppression; non-ideal theory; resistance; testimony; victims
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