Löschke, Jörg (2014). Second-Personal Reasons and Special Obligations. Croatian Journal of Philosophy(14), pp. 293-308. Kruzak
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The paper discusses the second-personal account of moral obligation as put forward by Stephen Darwall. It argues that on such an account, an important part of our moral practice cannot be explained, namely special obligations that are grounded in special relationships between persons. After highlighting the problem, the paper discusses several strategies to accommodate such special obligations that are implicit in some of Darwall’s texts, most importantly a disentanglement strategy and a reductionist strategy. It argues that neither one of these strategies is entirely convincing. The last part of the papers sketches a novel account of how to accommodate special obligations in a second-personal framework: According to this suggestion, special obligations might be due to the fact that relationships change the normative authority that persons have over each other.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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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: |
Löschke, Jörg |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy 100 Philosophy > 170 Ethics |
ISSN: |
1333-1108, 1847-6139 |
Publisher: |
Kruzak |
Funders: |
[4] Swiss National Science Foundation |
Projects: |
[UNSPECIFIED] Der normative Stellenwert akteur-relativer Gründe |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Jörg Löschke |
Date Deposited: |
16 Apr 2015 14:32 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:45 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.67184 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/67184 |
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