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The Beam and the Mote: On Blame, Standing, and Normativity

Autor Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 dec 2023
“Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye” says the Bible. In other words: there is something problematic about one person blaming another, when the blamer's faults are even greater.Many believe that even if one has done something blameworthy, one can dismiss blame when coming from a hypocritical blamer. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen examines the nature and ethics of standingless, hypocritical blame. It argues that hypocrites lack standing to blame in virtue of their lack of commitment to the norms to which they appeal in their blame; that hypocritical blame is pro tanto morally wrong because it involves treating the blamee as an inferior; and that there are many other sources of lacking standing to blame than hypocrisy, e.g., complicity. Lippert-Rasmussen extrapolates these analyses to other moral responses, notably praising and forgiving. So far, philosophers interested in standing have focused narrowly on blaming, but many other moral responses require standing as well. Indeed, Lippert-Rasmussen argues that considerations about standing apply to illocutionary acts not involving appeals to moral norms, e.g., non-moral encouragements and epistemic blame. In closing, Lippert-Rasmussen uses insights related to the idea of standing as a basis for making a grand claim about how part of morality is interpersonal in a sense often ignored in discussions of mainstream first-order moral theories, and to elucidate the nature of the moral wrong involved in relying on negative statistical generalizations about certain groups of people.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197544594
ISBN-10: 0197544592
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 229 x 160 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
It is essential reading for philosophers interested in this topic. The book also helps us see how central questions of standing and authority are to moral practice and so should be read by anyone interested in second-personal issues in ethics more generally.
The Beam and The Mote: One Blame, Standing, and Normativity contains several new and insightful arguments. Its prose is clear and crisp, and it covers the debate over the standing to blame outstandingly, comprehensively assessing existing accounts of what standing is, how one can lose one's standing to blame, and why standingless blame is wrong. Particularly significant are the novel objections raised to Matt King's account that hypocritical blame is wrong because it involves violating a moral norm of attention (or attending to the "wrong" things). In sum, the monograph is a must-read for philosophers working on standing to hold responsible and a great introduction to the issue of standing for the curiousminded.

Notă biografică

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen is professor of political theory at University of Aarhus, Denmark and professor II in philosophy at the Arctic University of Norway-UiT. He has published widely on issues in ethics and political philosophy. Previous books include: Born Free and Equal (Oxford University Press, 2013), Relational Egalitarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Making Sense of Affirmative Action (Oxford University Press, 2020). He was associate editor at Ethics (2008-2020) and Chair for the Society for Applied Philosophy 2011-2014. Presently, he is director of the Center for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination, University of Aarhus.