Many believe that we ought to treat people as individuals and that this form of treatment is in some sense incompatible with treating people as members of groups. Yet, the relation between these two kinds of treatments is elusive. In this paper, we develop a novel account of the normative requirement to treat people as individuals. According to this account, treating people as individuals requires treating people as agents in the appropriate capacity. We call this the Agency Attunement Account. This view has the surprising implication that it's not only possible to fail in treating people as individuals but also possible to fail in treating people as members of groups, on the presumption that people's agency is sometimes nested in, and exercised via, agential groups.

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将人视为个体和群体成员


许多人认为，我们应该将人视为个体，这种对待方式在某种意义上与将人视为群体成员是不相容的。然而，这两种治疗方法之间的关系尚不清楚。在本文中，我们对将人视为个体的规范要求进行了新颖的阐述。根据这一说法，将人视为个体需要将人视为具有适当能力的代理人。我们称之为代理协调账户。这种观点具有令人惊讶的含义，即假设人们的能动性有时嵌套在代理群体中并通过代理群体行使，那么不仅可能无法将人们视为个体，而且也可能无法将人们视为群体成员。