FOOD THIEF: ALLEVIATION OF RESPONSIBILITY IN TERMS OF ALL-THINGS-CONSIDERED OBLIGATIONS

• Authors: Glavaničová Daniela
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

People sometimes have to steal food to survive. Yet it is unclear whether they are to be excused for doing so. A recent paper by Alejandra Mancilla argues for the rarely defended affirmative answer. About the same time, the Italyʼs Supreme Court of Cassation ruled that stealing a small amount of food when in extreme need does not constitute a crime. Given that food thieves in extreme need can be sometimes excused, the present paper aims to offer a semi-formal account of responsibility that makes space for the alleviation of responsibility in such ‘food thief’ scenario. I argue that a solution is buried in the notion of eligible strategy employed in an account of responsibility suggested by Matthew Braham and Martin van Hees. I argue that a possible answer to the issue of (in)eligibility can be provided in terms of all-things-considered obligations, or the lack thereof.

Keywords

EN

ALL-THINGS-CONSIDERED; ELIGIBILITY; RESPONSIBILITY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 841 – 851

Contributors

author

Glavaničová Daniela

• Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2019.74.10.4