Morality, authority, and law

228 Pages·2014·1.286 MB·English

by  Darwall, Stephen L

Morality, Authority, and Law
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Morality, Authority,
and Law
Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I
Stephen Darwall
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
I. Morality
1. Morality’sDistinctiveness 3
2. BipolarObligation 20
3. MoralObligation:FormandSubstance 40
4. “ButItWouldBeWrong” 52
5. MoralityandPrinciple 73
II. Autonomy
6. “BecauseIWantIt” 93
7. TheValueofAutonomyandAutonomyoftheWill 114
III. Authority and Law
8. AuthorityandSecond-PersonalReasonsforActing 135
9. AuthorityandReasons:ExclusionaryandSecondPersonal 151
10. LawandtheSecond-PersonStandpoint 168
11. CivilRecourseasMutualAccountability(co-authored
withJulianDarwall) 179
WorksCited 199
Index 207
The forthcoming companion volume to
Morality, Authority, and Law is:
Honor, History, and Relationship:
Essays in Second-Personal Ethics II
Introduction
I. Honor,Respect,andAccountability
1. RespectasHonorandasAccountability
2. Smith’sAmbivalenceaboutHonor
3. JusticeandRetaliation
4. RessentimentandSecond-PersonalResentment
II. RelatingtoOthers
5. ResponsibilitywithinRelations
6. BeingWith
7. DemystifyingPromises
III. History
8. GrotiusattheCreationofModernMoralPhilosophy
9. PufendorfonMorality,Sociability,andMoralPowers
10. FichteandtheSecond-PersonStandpoint
11. KantonRespect,Dignity,andtheDutyofRespect
Acknowledgments
Manycolleagues,students,friends,andfamilymembershavehelpedmetoformulate
the ideas in the essays in this volume. The central elements of the second-person
framework were first conceived in the stimulating environment provided by the
UniversityofMichiganPhilosophyDepartment;Iowesoverymuchtomanypeople
there.SincecomingtoYalein2008,Ihavebeenfortunatetofindwonderfulcolleagues
andstudentswhohavehelpedmetodevelopmyideasfurther.Iamespeciallyindebted
totheparticipantsinaseminarJulesColemanandIgaveattheYaleLawSchoolonlaw
andthereactiveattitudesinFall2008,aseminarIgaveonmoralobligationinSpring
2009,andaseminarMattSmithandIofferedonrecognitioninFall2011.Ihavealso
had the opportunity to present versions of these essays at many different institutions,
conferences, and workshops and have benefited enormously from the feedback
Ireceivedthere.Icannoteventrytomentionallofthese,butIwouldberemissnot
togivespecialthanksfortheinvitationsthatinitiatedmanyoftheseessays.
“Morality’sDistinctiveness”waswrittenforaconferenceonthepointofmoralityat
the Humboldt University in Berlin in June 2010. “Bipolar Obligation” was initially
presentedasthekeynotelectureatthe7thAnnualWisconsinMetaethicsWorkshopat
MadisoninSeptember2010.“MoralObligation:FormandSubstance”wasdelivered
totheAristotelianSocietyinLondoninNovember2009.“ButItWouldBeWrong”
was originally given as the keynote lecture at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center
conference on moral obligation at Bowling Green State University in November
2008. “Morality and Principle” was written for a volume honoring Jonathan Dancy
tobepublishedbyOxfordUniversityPressin2013.
“Because I Want It” was first presented at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center
conferenceonmoralknowledgeinSeptember2000.And“TheValueofAutonomy
andAutonomyoftheWill”waswrittenforaconferenceonautonomyandwell-being
attheUniversityofTorontoinApril2004.
“Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting” was originally given at a
conference on reasons for action in April 2006 at Bowling Green State University.
“Authority and Reasons: Exclusionary and Second Personal” was presented at a
conferencehonoringJosephRazattheUniversityofManchesterinMay2008.“Law
andtheSecond-PersonStandpoint”waswrittenforanissueofLoyolaofLosAngelesLaw
ReviewdevotedtoTheSecond-PersonStandpoint,editedbyRobinKar.“CivilRecourse
as Mutual Accountability” was written with Julian Darwall for a conference on civil
recoursetheoryatTheFloridaStateUniversityCollegeofLawinFebruary2011.
Mysons,WilliamandJulianDarwall,continuetoindulgeaphilosophicalfatherwith
their willingness to think through ideas together. In addition to being a co-author,