Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
On Blame, Standing, and Normativity
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-754459-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press
“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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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Topic and main aims
- 2. Structure
- 3. Significance
- Chapter 1: Hypocritical blame
- 1. Introduction
- 2. When is blame hypocritical?
- 2.1 The blaming condition
- 2.2 The incoherence condition
- 2.3 The no-self-blame condition
- 2.4 The no-justification condition
- 2.5 Summary
- 3. Standing to blame and its denial
- 4. Other accounts of what it is to dismiss blame on grounds of the hypocrite's lack of standing
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Complications and defeaters of standing
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Private blame
- 3. Self-blame
- 4. Third-person blame
- 5. Degrees of blame and degrees of standing
- 6. Skepticism about standing to blame
- 7. Why does hypocrisy undermine standing to blame?
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 3: What, if anything, makes hypocritical blame morally wrong?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lack of desert
- 3. Lack of commitment
- 4. Wrong attention
- 5. Transgression of moral authority
- 6. Failure of reciprocity
- 7. Moral community
- 8. Implying falsehoods
- 9. A clash with moral equality
- 10. Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Other ways of not having standing to blame
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tu quoque
- 3. Complicity
- 4. None of your business
- 5. “You don't know what it's like”
- 6. “You don't accept that principle yourself”
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Praising
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is praising?
- 3. Standing to praise
- 4. Hypocritical praise
- 5. The wrongfulness of hypocritical praise
- 6. Other forms of standingless praise
- 7. Standing to prame
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Forgiving
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is it to forgive?
- 3. Dismissing forgiveness as standingless
- 4. Hypocritical forgiving
- 5. What undermines standing to forgive?
- 6. The wrongfulness of hypocritical forgiveness
- 7. Other ways in which forgiving can be standingless
- 8. Fromtaking
- 9. Conclusion
- 10. Appendix: Forgiving and standing to apologize
- Chapter 7: Morality, normativity, and standing
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Encouraging
- 3. Epistemic blame
- 4. Consequentialism, deontology, and the interpersonal nature of holding accountable
- 5. Standing and moral encroachment
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
