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Articulating the Moral Community - Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism (Hardcover)
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Articulating the Moral Community - Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Moral Theory
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Is morality fixed objectively, independently of all human judgment,
or do we "invent" right and wrong? Articulating the Moral Community
argues that neither of these simple answers is correct. Its central
thesis is that, working within zones of objective indeterminacy,
the moral community-the community of all persons-has the authority
to introduce new moral norms. Unlike political communities, which
are centralized, non-inclusive, and backed by coercion, the moral
community is decentralized, inclusive, and not coercively backed.
This book explains in detail how its structure arises from efforts
by individuals to work out intelligently with one another how to
respond to morally important concerns. Developing a novel theory of
dyadic rights and duties based on this phenomenon, the book argues
that conscientious efforts of this kind provide moral input,
authoritative only over the parties involved. After sufficient
uptake and reflective acceptance by the moral community, however,
these innovations become new moral norms. This account of the moral
community's moral authority is motivated by, and supports, a type
of normative ethical theory, constructive ethical pragmatism,
which-to use an unfashionable distinction defended in the
book-rejects the consequentialist claim that rightness is to be
defined as a function of goodness and the deontological claim that
principles of right stand fixed, independently of the good. It
holds, rather, that what we ought to do depends on our continuing
efforts to specify the right and the good in light of each other.
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