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Morality, Authority, and Law - Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I (Paperback)
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Morality, Authority, and Law - Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I (Paperback)
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Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore the view
that central moral concepts are irreducibly second-personal, in
that they entail mutual accountability and the authority to address
demands. He illustrates the power of the second-personal framework
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 obligation's 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 Kant's 'autonomy of
the will' and the right to autonomy, and another arguing that what
makes an agent's 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 Raz's
influential 'normal justification thesis' and argue that it fails
to capture authority's second-personal nature, without which
authority cannot create 'exclusionary' and 'preemptive' reasons.
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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