Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore and extend
the Second-Person Standpoints argument that central moral concepts are
irreducibly second personal, entailing mutual accountability and the
authority to address demands to one another (and ourselves). He
illustrates the second-personal frameworks power to illuminate a wide
variety of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy. Section I
concerns morality: its distinctiveness among normative concepts, the
metaethics of bipolar obligations (owed to someone); the relation
between moral obligations form and the substance of our obligations;
whether the fact that an action is wrong is itself a reason against
action (as opposed to simply entailing that sufficient moral reasons
independently exist); and whether morality requires general principles
or might be irreducibly particularistic. Section II consists of two
essays on autonomy: one discussing the relation between Kants autonomy
of the will and the right to autonomy, and another arguing that what
makes an agents desires and will reason-giving is not the basis of
internal practical reasons in desire, but the dignity of persons and
shared second-personal authority. Section III focuses on the nature of
authority and the law. Two essays take up Joseph Razs influential
normal justification thesis and argue that it fails to capture
authoritys second-personal nature, without which authority cannot
create exclusionaryand preemptivereasons.The final two essays concern
law.The first sketches the insights that a second-personal approach
can provide into the nature of law and the grounds of distinctions
between different parts of law.The second shows how a second-personal
framework can be used to develop the civil recourse theory in the law
of torts.
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Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I
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ISBN
9780191639586
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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