{"product_id":"the-secondperson-standpoint-morality-respect-and-accountability-9780674034624","title":"The SecondPerson Standpoint  Morality Respect and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy should we avoid doing moral wrong? After showing how attempts to vindicate morality have tended to fall back on non-moral values or first-person considerations, Stephen Darwall elaborates the interpersonal nature of moral obligations: their inherent link to our responsibilities to one another as members of the moral community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Darwall's \u003ci\u003eThe Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to moral philosophy, and its arguments are sure to be widely discussed and debated. The book brings into contemporary philosophical debates a series of ideas centering around what Darwall calls 'the second person'-- the idea that morality is fundamentally about the demands that particular people are entitled to make on each other. Obligation, understood as what people owe to each other, has been central to recent moral philosophy, but the second person standpoint gets behind the idea of obligation and explains that in terms of the standing the particular people have to make claims against each other.  These ideas have been of great significance in the history of philosophy, but that have not attracted the attention of philosophers in recent decades. This is a fascinating and important book. -- Arthur Ripstein, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Second-Person Standpoint\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Darwall's innovative and engaging new book, contends that not only can we use Strawson's argument to develop a new line on free will; we can also employ it in developing a new perspective on moral obligations...It is a mine of insight into an aspect of morality that has escaped sustained exploration. Even if it overreaches in its claim to confound consequentialism, the elements it puts in place ought to figure prominently in every account of morality, and it should help to ensure that from now on they will. -- Philip Pettit * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eThe idea of a second-personal reason is a genuine and important advance in moral philosophy. -- Christine M. Korsgaard * Ethics *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Second-Person Standpoint\u003c\/i\u003e has quickly become one of the most discussed recent books in ethics. It richly deserves that honor, since it offers a thorough, intriguing and deeply thoughtful reconception of the entire sphere of morality...Darwall's book challenges the meta-ethical presuppositions of practically every going moral theory. Darwall remains, as he has been throughout his career, strongly committed to Kantianism. But his Kantianism is now one in which a certain relationship--the relationship between an I and a you--lies deeper than even the categorical imperative. If he is right, we will need to read Kant himself in a different light. -- Samuel Fleischacker * Utilitas *\u003cbr\u003eDarwall's foray into this relatively untrampled philosophical terrain turns out to be enormously exciting. The result is a book which takes its place among the very best contemporary works on Kantian ethics and which ought to be regarded as required reading for any contemporary ethical theorist. -- Talbot Brewer * Philosophical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the main achievements of Darwall's book is that it provides an answer to [Anscombe's] challenge. The authorities to whom modern moral consciousness appeals are simply you and I. -- Gary Watson * Ethics *\u003cbr\u003eA theory regarding the form and content of moral obligation requires attention to issues in both ethics and metaphysics. Darwall's construction of such a theory is historically informed, concisely written, and provocative in ways that extend far beyond the merely theoretical. -- H. Storl * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Second-Person Standpoint\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorous and convincing volume of utmost importance to ongoing discussions of the foundations of rights and obligations in ethics and jurisprudence, as well as to the current debates on the foundations of practical rationality. Additionally, Darwall’s book is likely to be a catalyst for a new and beneficial discussion of the long neglected ethical doctrines of early-modern theological voluntarism and German idealism and the contributions these rich traditions can offer to contemporary thinking about morality, responsibility, and the dignity of persons. -- Daniel M. Layman * Review of Metaphysics *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    Part I    1.\tThe Main Ideas I   2.\tThe Main Ideas II   3.\tThe Second-Person Stance and Second-Personal Reasons    Part II    4.\tAccountability and the Second Person   5.\tMoral Obligation and Accountability   6.\tRespect and the Second Person    Part III    7.\tThe Psychology of the Second Person   8.\tInterlude: Hume Versus Reid on Justice (with Contemporary Resonances)    Part IV    9.\tMorality and Autonomy in Kant   10.\tThe Second Person and Dignity: Variations on Fichtean Themes   11.\tFreedom and Practical Reason   12.\tA Foundation for Contractualism    Works Cited   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526053470551,"sku":"9780674034624","price":24.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674034624.jpg?v=1731862727","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secondperson-standpoint-morality-respect-and-accountability-9780674034624","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}