TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,R.Jay
TI  - The Moral Nexus
T2  - Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
SN  - 9780691172170
AV  - BJ1458.3 .W355 2019
U1  - 170.42 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Normativity (Ethics)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - adults
KW  - agent
KW  - blame
KW  - claimholders
KW  - deliberation
KW  - interpersonal accountability
KW  - interpersonal morality
KW  - moral duties
KW  - moral duty
KW  - moral equals
KW  - moral nexus
KW  - moral obligation
KW  - moral obligations
KW  - moral relations
KW  - moral requirements
KW  - moral standards
KW  - moral theory
KW  - moral thoughts
KW  - morality
KW  - normative features
KW  - normative significance
KW  - philosophical account
KW  - relational interpretation
KW  - relational morality
KW  - relational obligations
KW  - relational requirements
KW  - right
KW  - self-standing
KW  - wrong
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The Problem of Moral Obligation --; 3 Morality as a Social Phenomenon --; 4 Relational Requirements without Relational Foundations --; 5 From Interests to Claims --; 6 Some Practical Consequences --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 the agent comply with these demands. Interpersonal morality, so conceived, is the domain of what we owe to each other, insofar as we are each persons with equal moral standing.The book offers an interpretative argument for the relational approach. Specifically, it highlights neglected advantages of this way of understanding the moral domain; explores important theoretical and practical presuppositions of relational moral duties; and considers the normative implications of understanding morality in relational terms.The book features a novel defense of the relational approach to morality, which emphasizes the special significance that moral requirements have, both for agents who are deliberating about what to do and for those who stand to be affected by their actions. The book argues that relational moral requirements can be understood to link us to all individuals whose interests render them vulnerable to our agency, regardless of whether they stand in any prior relationship to us. It also offers fresh accounts of some of the moral phenomena that have seemed to resist treatment in relational terms, showing that the relational interpretation is a viable framework for understanding our specific moral obligations to other people
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691183923?locatt=mode:legacy
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