PHILOS 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Neurosis, Mitigating Factor, Collective Responsibility
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Aggregated guilt : 2 ways we can think of a group as being guilty aggregate and associative. Guilt of the collective is a function of the guilt of its members . One member of the group makes the entire group guilty . If one person is on board for something bad and they"re guilty , then the collective is guilty. Not a function of the guilt of the members. Associatively and not just thinking enough of the members are guilty so the entire group is guilty . Main feature is that its not aggregate guilt. 1. stains the guilt of members of the group. Irrationality of anti semitism transfers the guilt of one individual to another some jew acts in an unacceptable way , and the inference that all jews act this way . Another fault in reasoning is : suppose we accept that the jewish people. If the guilt attaches to the collective , it def. transfers .
