Philip Pettit on Group Agency
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The Impossibility of a Group Mind
There's a very long tradition of recognizing that individual human beings can combine into units or groups. The Romans and the Greeks, for example, didn't have that notion of a corporate entity; that suddenly happens in the Middle Ages. As these groups become salient, the lawyers and the philosophers begin to talk precisely of an artificial person.
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