Graduation Year

2026

Date of Submission

4-2026

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)

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Professor Adrienne Martin

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Abstract

Social roles, and their obligations, are increasingly defined and determined by organizations. For example, schools structure the organizational obligations of teachers, and states structure the organizational obligations of legal parents. The burdens of fulfilling these role obligations are in part functions of the specific circumstances of role occupants. Sometimes these circumstances are affected by injustice. The aim of this paper is to construct an account of support obligations—the obligations of organizations to provide burden-alleviating support to their role occupants who face heightened burdens as a result of injustice. This account moves in three parts: Objectionable Burdens asserts that burdens which are the effects of injustice are morally objectionable; Fair Play tells us that organizations are not to gain from the cooperative labors of role occupants without doing their fair share; and Other Cost Proportionality asserts that Fair Play specifically requires organizations to provide alleviating support to role occupants when they face significant burdens. Morally objectionable burdens are significant such that organizations are obligated to provide burden-alleviating support to role occupants who bear these burdens.

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