NDLI: How to Overcome Strawson’s Point: Defending a Value-Oriented Foundation for Contractualism

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Paletta, Douglas
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	In The Second Person Standpoint, Darwall charges that all value-oriented foundations for ethics make a category mistake. Calling it Strawson’s point, he argues these foundations explain moral authority, which concerns whether someone has standing to hold another accountable, in terms of a value, which essentially concerns what makes the world go best. However, whether it would be good for me to blame you simply asks a different question than whether I have standing to blame you. I defend a valueoriented foundation for contractualism by identifying one way to overcome Strawson’s point. At bottom, Darwall’s objection relies on the assumption that all values are worldregarding. I argue that another class of values exists: second-personal values. Grounding morality in one of these values does not make the category mistake at the heart of Strawson’s point. In particular, I argue that grounding morality on one secondpersonal value, the ideal of acting justifiably towards others, better captures traditional contractualist ideals than Darwall’s formal foundation.
Starting Page	9
Ending Page	20
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13862820
Journal	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728447
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-12-09
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Contractualism Darwall Strawson’s point Ethics Authority Values Political Philosophy Ontology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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