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The Normative Implications of Benefiting from Injustice
Author(s) -
Haydar Bashshar,
Øverland Gerhard
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/japp.12078
Subject(s) - wrongdoing , injustice , normative , luck , misfortune , duty , epistemology , law and economics , positive economics , sociology , psychology , political science , social psychology , economics , philosophy , law , linguistics , narrative
In this article we investigate whether non‐culpably benefiting from wrongdoing or injustice generates a moral requirement to disgorge these benefits in order to compensate the victims. We argue that a strong requirement to disgorge such benefits is generated only if other conditions or factors are present. We identify three such factors and claim that their presence would explain why the normative features of certain types of cases of benefiting from wrongdoing differ from cases of benefiting from simple misfortune or bad luck.