Philip Pettit (2007), Ethics 117(2):171–201 — DOI-10.1086/510695

Key takeaways

Registered, not read. The argument is read in Pettit’s 2017 chapter (LIT-718), which restates it. Those are the conditions of a significant choice, the capacity to make a normative judgment about the options, and control over acting on that judgment. It argues that a corporation meets them because it must form a mind of its own, not borrow one from any mechanical aggregation of its members’ votes.

Standing in the record

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