Joint Activities and Moral Obligation
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Joint Activities and Moral Obligation
Steinfath, H. (2019)
In:Roughley, Neil; Bayertz, Kurt (Eds.), The Normative Animal? - On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms pp. 177-194. New York , Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190846466.003.0009
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- Authors
- Steinfath, Holmer
- Editors
- Roughley, Neil; Bayertz, Kurt
- Abstract
- This chapter explores the close connection between “dyadic” moral obligations and joint activities that are essential for the social life of human beings. Against Margaret Gilbert’s well-known claim, the chapter argues that joint activities are not inherently laden with obligations and entitlements. However, it shows that there is a smooth transition from joint activities to a form of morality. In this transition, reactive attitudes like resentment play an important role. Full-blown moral normativity presupposes a group of more than two people, but the normative structure of a moral community mirrors the way in which people relate to each other in typical joint activities.
- Issue Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-19-084646-6
- eISBN
- 978-0-19-084647-3
978-0-19-084648-0
978-0-19-084649-7 - Language
- English
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- https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190846466.001.0001/oso-9780190846466-chapter-9
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