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26Race and the Responsibility to Abide by the Norms of Unchosen and Unjust Social RolesThe Monist 102 (2): 172-186. 2019.Charles Mills claims that there are specific “civic and political duties” which individuals have a responsibility to fulfil because of the racial social roles they occupy. However, even those generally sympathetic to Role Ethics resist the idea that such nonvoluntary and morally problematic roles could ground genuine normativity. I argue that we should take the felt normativity of nonideal social roles seriously. Further, I argue that we should agree with Mills that one’s race constitutes a soci…Read more
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Philosophy of Race |
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