The Moral Nexus /
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 t...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1. Elements of Relational Normativity; 1.2. Overview of the Argument; 2 The Problem of Moral Obligation; 2.1. Practical Requirements: The Basic Challenge; 2.2. Moral Obligation: The Specific Challenge; 2.3. A Relational Approach to Moral Obligation; 2.4. Refining the Picture; 3 Morality as a Social Phenomenon; 3.1. The Interpersonal Significance of Moral Right and Wrong; 3.2. Individualistic and Relational Conceptions of the Moral Right; 3.3. The Relational Structure of Interpersonal Accountability
- 3.4. The Relational Content of Blame4 Relational Requirements without Relational Foundations; 4.1. Obligations and Relationships; 4.2. Self-Standing Relational Requirements; 4.3. Anti-Individualism about the Normative; 4.4. Agent-Relativity and Morality as an Ideal; 5 From Interests to Claims; 5.1. Defining the Manifold: Who Are the Claimholders?; 5.2. Interests, Claims, and Moral Wrongs; 5.3. Moral Justification and Moral Reasoning: From Interests to Claims; 5.4. A Theory of Relational Morality?; 6 Some Practical Consequences; 6.1. Foreseeability, Claims, and Wrongs
- 6.2. Claims without Rights: Imperfect Moral Duties6.3. Numbers and Non-Identity; 6.4. Extramoral Concern for Moral Persons; Notes; Bibliograph; Index