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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 attitudes: emotions like resentment, gratitude, guilt, approbation and indignation, whereby people hold each other responsible to certain norms. Helm argues that these communities are fundamental in three interrelated ways to understanding what it is to be a person |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Ethics.
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Self (Philosophy)
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Ethics
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Self (Philosophy)
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191840425 |
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0191840424 |
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9780192522030 |
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0192522035 |
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