Moral Obligations and Consent

Müller, Andreas (2018). Moral Obligations and Consent. In: Müller, Andreas; Schaber, Peter (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics (pp. 119-130). London: Routledge 10.4324/9781351028264-12

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In this chapter, I examine the effects consent has on our moral obligations. In particular, I address three questions: (1) Whose obligations are affected by a person’s consent? It is uncontroversial that consent changes the normative situation of the agent to whom it is given. But can it also create a new obligation for the person giving it? (2) Which obligations are affected by consent? Consent makes a difference to whether or not an action constitutes a breach for some moral obligations but not for others. Here, I survey the moral obligations that are most often thought to be consent-sensitive in this sense. (3) Why does a person’s consent sometimes ensure that an action no longer breaches an obligation? I distinguish three answers to this question and discuss their implications for determining the scope of our ability to consent.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
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:	Müller, Andreas (A)
Subjects:	100 Philosophy 100 Philosophy > 170 Ethics
ISBN:	978-1-138-85554-0
Series:	Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics
Publisher:	Routledge
Language:	English
Submitter:	Andreas Müller
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2019 11:00
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2023 23:36
Publisher DOI:	10.4324/9781351028264-12
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/129343