id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_vjms35oosfc5zowrodvchegfjy William A. Edmundson Distributive Justice, Distributed Duties 2015 1 .pdf application/pdf 420 23 46 Distributive Justice Distributing Duties abstract.pages Certain kinds of collective obligation distribute over their membership, i.e., become members' obligations to do a fair share to fulfill the collectivity's obligation. In incremental good cases, i.e., those in which a member's fair share would go part way toward fulfilling the collectivity's obligation, each member has an States are collectivities, and states can be moral agents bearing obligations. citizens sufficiently well to count them among collectivities whose obligations distribute over The qualifications to count as a democratic legal state are not as rigorous as In particular, a democratic legal state need only guarantee a social A democratic legal state bears an obligation to be just and to do justice. who hold assets, which are in excess of what is just, bear a distributed duty to donate that of the state in meeting its obligations. For the full text, go to http://ssrn.com/abstract=2545398 or http://dx.doi.org/ http://ssrn.com/abstract=2545398 ./cache/work_vjms35oosfc5zowrodvchegfjy.pdf ./txt/work_vjms35oosfc5zowrodvchegfjy.txt