Bennett W Helm

Communities of Respect

Grounding Responsibility, Authority, and Dignity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bennett W. Helm presents a new approach to understanding persons as responsible, rational agents, by developing an account of communities of respect and our place within them. Through the interplay of reactive attitudes, community members are held responsible to norms which shape their identities, as essentially social creatures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780198801863
• ISBN-10: 0198801866
• Artikelnr.: 47864900

Autorenporträt

Bennett Helm is the Elijah E. Kresge Professor of Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania. His work focuses on understanding what it is to be a person and, in particular, the role the emotions and various forms of caring play in making us persons be moral creatures. He has received fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Templeton Foundation, and Princeton's Center for Human Values. He is the author of Emotional Reason: Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Towards a Social Conception of Persons
2: Rationality, the Evaluative Attitudes, and Import
3: Respect and the Reactive Attitudes
4: Trust: A Forward-Looking Reactive Attitude
5: Responsibility, Authority, and the Bindingness of Norms
6: Roles, Relationships, and Blame
7: Communal Values and Character-Oriented Reactive Attitudes
8: Persons in the First Person Plural