The Moral Nexus
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The Moral Nexus
By (Author) R. Jay Wallace
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
7th May 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
170
Physical Properties
Hardback
328
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
The Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpretation of morality-namely, as a set of requirements that connect agents normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations. According to this relational interpretation, moral demands are directed to other individuals, who have claims that the agent comply with these demands. Interpersonal m
Reviews
"[A] wonderful accomplishment: to have provided us with a highly original and ambitious reinterpretation of the moral domain and to thereby have paved the way for a potential paradigm shift in moral theorizing against the background of the basic idea that no individual is either more or less important than any other (p. 20)."---Jonas Vandieken, Journal of Moral Philosophy
Author Bio
R. Jay Wallace is the Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments, Normativity and the Will, and The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret.
