Mihaela Constantinescu
Abstract
With the growing interest towards moral issues within corporate settings, attributions of
moral responsibility are extending from individual agents to collective agents such as corporations.
But are the latter capable of satisfying the necessary and sufficient conditions for moral responsibility
ascriptions traditionally defined in the Aristotelian framework? This article discusses the topic of
moral responsibility as related to both individual and collective agents, inquiring whether corporations
are able to bear moral responsibility as individual agents do. It advances an interpretation in which,
based on the status of secondary moral agents and on internal structuring mechanisms such as
corporate practices, corporations are able to meet the criteria for moral responsibility ascriptions.
AnnalsUnibuc-2013-62-01Constantinescu