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The Moral Nexus (Hardcover)
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The Moral Nexus (Hardcover)
Series: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
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The Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpretation of
morality-namely, as a set of requirements that connect agents
normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations.
According to this relational interpretation, moral demands are
directed to other individuals, who have claims that the agent
comply with these demands. Interpersonal morality, so conceived, is
the domain of what we owe to each other, insofar as we are each
persons with equal moral standing. The book offers an
interpretative argument for the relational approach. Specifically,
it highlights neglected advantages of this way of understanding the
moral domain; explores important theoretical and practical
presuppositions of relational moral duties; and considers the
normative implications of understanding morality in relational
terms. The book features a novel defense of the relational approach
to morality, which emphasizes the special significance that moral
requirements have, both for agents who are deliberating about what
to do and for those who stand to be affected by their actions. The
book argues that relational moral requirements can be understood to
link us to all individuals whose interests render them vulnerable
to our agency, regardless of whether they stand in any prior
relationship to us. It also offers fresh accounts of some of the
moral phenomena that have seemed to resist treatment in relational
terms, showing that the relational interpretation is a viable
framework for understanding our specific moral obligations to other
people.
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