Communities of respect : grounding responsibility, authority, and dignity

Communities of respect : grounding responsibility, authority, and dignity / Bennett W. Helm.

Communities of respect are communities of people sharing common practices or a (partial) way of life; they include families, clubs, religious groups and political parties. This book develops a detailed account of such communities in terms of the rational structure of their members' reactive att...

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Main Author: Helm, Bennett W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Self (Philosophy)
Social sciences > Philosophy.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Ethics
Social sciences > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Communities of Respect: Grounding Responsibility, Authority, and Dignity; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Towards a Social Conception of Persons; 1.1 Authority and Dignity in the First-Person Plural; 1.2 Community and Individuals; 1.3 Practical Rationality and Communal Norms; 1.4 Looking Ahead; 2: Rationality, the Evaluative Attitudes, and Import; 2.1 Desire and the Problem of Import; 2.2 Methodological Interlude: Characterizing Rationality; 2.3 Emotions and the Rationality of Import; 2.4 Types of Import; 2.5 Conclusion; PART I: Reactive Attitudes.
  • 3: Respect and the Reactive Attitudes3.1 The Scope of the Reactive Attitudes; 3.2 Interpersonal Call of Reactive Attitudes; 3.3 Defining the Focus; 3.4 Constituting Respect and Dignity; 3.5 Joint Reverence and the Call of the Reactive Attitudes; 3.6 Conclusion; 4: Trust: A Forward-Looking Reactive Attitude; 4.1 Reliance on Another's Respect; 4.2 Trustworthiness and Warrant; 4.3 Trust as an Invitation to Community; 4.4 Broader Implications: Reactive Attitudes, Emotions, and Judgments; PART II: Communal Norms; 5: Responsibility, Authority, and the Bindingness of Norms.
  • 5.1 The Nature of Communal Norms5.2 Escaping Joint Commitment; 5.3 Community and Tradition: Motivating Holism; 5.4 Bindingness of Norms; 5.4.1 Community and Rationality; 5.4.2 Membership; 5.4.3 Authority; 5.4.4 Bindingness; 5.4.5 Content of Norms; 5.4.6 Summary; 5.5 Conclusion; 6: Roles, Relationships, and Blame; 6.1 Roles and Relationships in Communities of Respect; 6.2 Scanlon on Blame; 6.3 Blame and Community; 6.4 Interlude: Excuses; 6.5 Blame and Relationships; 6.6 Conclusion; PART III: Communities and Persons; 7: Communal Values and Character-Oriented Reactive Attitudes.
  • 7.1 Globalist Reactive Attitudes?7.2 Character-Oriented Reactive Attitudes; 7.3 Further Clarifications; 7.3.1 Personal or Social?; 7.3.2 Defensibility of Shame and Contempt; No-worth argument; Argument from withdrawal; Argument from heteronomy; 7.3.3 Conclusion; 7.4 Faces of Responsibility?; 8: Persons in the First-Person Plural; 8.1 Responsible Agency and Community; 8.2 Membership and Identification; 8.3 Towards Metaethics; Bibliography; Index.

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