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Locke's Moral Man (Hardcover)
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Locke's Moral Man (Hardcover)
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Antonia Lolordo presents an original interpretation of John Locke's
conception of moral agency-one that has implications both for his
metaphysics and for the foundations of his political theory. Locke
denies that species boundaries exist independently of human
convention, holds that the human mind may be either an immaterial
substance or a material one to which God has superadded the power
of thought, and insists that animals possess the ability to
perceive, will, and even reason-indeed, in some cases to reason
better than humans. Thus, he eliminates any sharp distinction
between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. However, in his
ethical and political work Locke assumes that there is a sharp
distinction between moral agents and other beings. He thus needs to
be able to delineate the set of moral agents precisely, without
relying on the sort of metaphysical and physical facts his
predecessors appealed to. Lolordo argues that for Locke, to be a
moral agent is simply to be free, rational, and a person.
Interpreting the Lockean metaphysics of moral agency in this way
helps us to understand both Locke's over-arching philosophical
project and the details of his accounts of liberty, personhood, and
rationality.
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