The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect and Accountability - Hardcover

Darwall, Stephen L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674022742 ISBN 13: 9780674022744

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Why should we avoid doing moral wrong? The inability of philosophy to answer this question in a compelling manner - along with the moral scepticism and ethical confusion that ensure - result, Stephen Darwall argues, from our failure to appreciate the essentially interpersonal character of moral obligation. After showing how attempts to vindicate morality have tended to change the subject - falling back on nonmoral values or practical, first-person considerations - Darwall elaborates the interpersonal nature of moral obligations: their inherent link to our responsibilities to one another as members of the moral community. As Darwall defines it, the concept of moral obligation has an irreducibly second-person aspect; it presupposes our authority to make claims and demands on one another. And so too do many other central notions, including those of rights, the dignity of and respect for persons, and the very concept of person itself. The result is nothing less than a fundamental reorientation of moral theory that enables it at last to account for morality's supreme authority - an account that Darwall carries from the realm of theory to the practical world of second-person attitudes, emotions, and actions.

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Stephen Darwall is John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0674022742
• ISBN 13: 9780674022744
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 362
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar