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Contemporary debates in social philosophy
In: Contemporary debates in philosophy 9
The character of humanity
In: Social identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 48-52
ISSN: 1363-0296
BEING MORAL AND HANDLING THE TRUTH
In: Social philosophy & policy, Band 30, Heft 1-2, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1471-6437
AbstractIt is generally agreed that Kant went too far in his claim that it is wrong to lie even if doing so will save an individual's life. The question remains whether it is morally permissible to tell a lie even if this does not involve saving the life of another individual. In this essay, I seek to answer this question affirmatively while at the same time setting strong constraints for when a lie (not involving saving a life) is morally permissible. I argue that lying is morally permissible in the face of what I call an egregious morally infelicitous question. Further, in some cases, lying is not only morally permissible but even reflects an unmistakable instance of considerable self-sacrifice. Needless to say, lies that constitute an instance of self-sacrifice are extremely rare. However, this possibility brings into sharp relief the truth that a lie need not stem from unsavory moral motives; it is upon this truth that the argument that it is morally permissible to lie in the face of an egregious morally infelicitous question relies. This essay ends with the quite poignant observation that there is nothing stable about out a society in which, owing to an unfailing duty to tell the truth, a person can obtain the truth merely by asking an egregious morally infelicitous question.
Trente ans après
In: Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 25
ISSN: 1950-6708
Le corps du libéralisme (volume 2): Naître ou ne pas naître: Dossier: Trente ans après
In: Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, Heft 12, S. 25-30
ISSN: 1291-1941
Sexual Desire, Moral Choice, and Human Ends
In: Journal of social philosophy, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 178-192
ISSN: 1467-9833
Morality, Consistency, and the Self: A Lesson from Rectification
In: Journal of social philosophy, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 374-381
ISSN: 1467-9833
Becoming an Evil Society: The Self and Strangers
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 271-294
ISSN: 1552-7476
Becoming an Evil Society: The Self and Strangers
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 271-294
ISSN: 0090-5917
STATISTICAL BADNESS*
In: Journal of social philosophy, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 30-41
ISSN: 1467-9833
Rationality and Affectivity: The Metaphysics of the Moral Self
In: Social philosophy & policy, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 154-172
ISSN: 1471-6437
There is a way of doing moral philosophy which goes something like this: If it can be shown that it is rational for perfectly selfish people to accept the constraints of morality, then it will follow,a fortiori, that it is rational for people capable of affective bonds, and thus less selfish, to do so. On this way of proceeding the real argument – that is, the argument for the actual constraints (theory or principles) to be adopted – proceeds with only fully rational individuals who have no other concern than to maximize their nontuistic (selfish) preferences. Then it is noted that the affective capacities of human beings actually make quite palatable the constraints that the fully rational persons with wholly nontuistic preferences have agreed upon.
Friendship
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 72, Heft 2, S. 217-236
ISSN: 1573-0964