Two Ways of Limiting Moral Demands

Naegeli, Lukas (2023). Two Ways of Limiting Moral Demands. The philosophical quarterly Oxford University Press 10.1093/pq/pqad103

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How should we respond to moral theories that put excessive demands on individual agents? Intramoral strategies concern the content of morality and set limits on how exacting moral demands may be. Extramoral strategies concern the normative status of morality and set limits on how significant moral demands may be. While both strategies are often discussed separately, I focus on a specific aspect of how they relate to each other: Do intramoral approaches assume that extramoral approaches fail, and if so, does that render them implausible? This challenge becomes apparent when the two strategies are considered together, and my goal is to show how it can be dealt with. In particular, I argue that intramoral strategies do not depend on the failure of extramoral strategies: Even if morality has limited practical significance (which I also doubt), moral theories can be criticized for being too demanding in terms of content.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy > Practical Philosophy

UniBE Contributor:

Nägeli, Lukas

Subjects:

100 Philosophy
100 Philosophy > 170 Ethics

ISSN:

1467-9213

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Lukas Nägeli

Date Deposited:

07 Mar 2024 17:08

Last Modified:

07 Mar 2024 17:08

Publisher DOI:

10.1093/pq/pqad103

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Uncontrolled Keywords:

limits of morality, demandingness objections, moral rationalism, normative authority, moral obligation, blameworthiness, moral decency

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/193852

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/193852

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