Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
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What Rights Do Corporate Entities Have as Different From Individuals?
Every state is to some extent an agent because every function on the state I should say is going to have as its goal maintaining a certain system of removal or in particular one that satisfies the goal of knowing enabling citizens to know where they stand. Now, I think states in that sense are capable of agency. That it's it's a gencially flexible, pursues goals, questions, situations according to the judgments about what's needed in this or that situation. And secondly, like human beings, but unlike animals because animals do the first of course, it can make promises and be held to those promises. Okay. So I think of the state in that sense as an agent, but and as
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