Having the right attitude
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The idea of respect for persons is supposed to play a foundational role in many non-consequentialist moral theories. A prominent Kantian version of these theories says that respect for persons is a matter of responding to the intrinsic value of rational agency and that, accordingly, our basic moral requirements are satisfied by this response to value. I think that this view faces two kinds of problems: it is liable to explanatory circularities, and it is unable to explain how paternalism is generally morally objectionable. My dissertation begins developing an alternative respect-based moral theory that solves these two problems by contrasting with the prominent Kantian theory in two key ways: it starts with an account of how respect for persons shapes our thought and action as an attitude in a certain social practice, rather than with an account of the intrinsic value of rational agency, and it sees respect for persons as a response to someone's authority, rather than to her value.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Rozeboom, Grant J |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy. |
| Primary advisor | Schapiro, Tamar |
| Thesis advisor | Schapiro, Tamar |
| Thesis advisor | Bratman, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Wood, Allen W |
| Advisor | Bratman, Michael |
| Advisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Advisor | Wood, Allen W |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Grant J. Rozeboom. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Grant J. Rozeboom
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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