Being Claimed in Immediate Response to an Other: Against a Foundationalist, and Towards a Relational, Understanding, of Moral Status

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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3384/de-ethica.2001-8819.23743" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3384/de-ethica.2001-8819.23743</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/de-ethica.2001-8819.23743" target="_blank" >10.3384/de-ethica.2001-8819.23743</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Being Claimed in Immediate Response to an Other: Against a Foundationalist, and Towards a Relational, Understanding, of Moral Status
Original language description
In this essay, I propose a phenomenological alternative to the established candidates of what grounds moral status, namely the experience of being claimed in immediate response to an Other. Drawing from late-Wittgensteinian moral philosophy, I develop this alternative in critical juxtaposition to theories that aim to derive moral status from values grounded in independently accountable empirical properties. Against such theories, I expound how meaningful talk of moral status must instead be understood to be rooted in the individuals’ morally charged immediate responsiveness to Others, a responsiveness that preconditions the very possibility of separating value and fact. If my analysis is sound, then the empirical property or set of properties that is commonly taken to qualify as a candidate for a ground of moral status in fact presupposes a phenomenological dimension of ‘ethical encounter’. The recognition of this deeper phenomenological level would, while not disposing with the notion of moral status, transform its meaning and, thus, how much of the philosophical debate on moral status is conducted.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
De Ethica : a Journal of Philosophical, Theological, and Applied Ethics
ISSN
2001-8819
e-ISSN
2001-8819
Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
SE - SWEDEN
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
3-15
UT code for WoS article
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