Communities of respect : grounding responsibility, authority, and dignity / Bennett W. Helm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helm, Bennett W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities--Social aspects.

Communities.

Ethics.

Self (Philosophy).

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 261 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Grounding responsibility, authority, and dignity

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Towards a Social Conception of Persons

Authority and Dignity in the First-Person Plural

Community and Individuals

Practical Rationality and Communal Norms

Looking Ahead

Rationality, the Evaluative Attitudes, and Import

Desire and the Problem of Import

Methodological Interlude: Characterizing Rationality

Emotions and the Rationality of Import

Types of Import

Conclusion

Reactive Attitudes

Respect and the Reactive Attitudes

The Scope of the Reactive Attitudes

Interpersonal Call of Reactive Attitudes

Defining the Focus

Constituting Respect and Dignity

Joint Reverence and the Call of the Reactive Attitudes

Trust: A Forward-Looking Reactive Attitude

Reliance on Another's Respect

Trustworthiness and Warrant

Trust as an Invitation to Community

Broader Implications: Reactive Attitudes, Emotions, and Judgments

Communal Norms

Responsibility, Authority, and the Bindingness of Norms

The Nature of Communal Norms

Escaping Joint Commitment

Community and Tradition: Motivating Holism

Bindingness of Norms

Conclusions

Roles, Relationships, and Blame

Roles and Relationships in Communities of Respect

Scanlon on Blame

Blame and Community

Interlude: Excuses

Blame and Relationships

Communities and Persons

Communal Values and Character-Oriented Reactive Attitudes

Globalist Reactive Attitudes?

Character-Oriented Reactive Attitudes

Further Clarifications

Faces of Responsibility?

Persons in the First-Person Plural

Responsible Agency and Community

Membership and Identification

Towards Metaethics.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 19, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-252204-3

0-19-184042-4