Relational Normativity and Morality: Persons, Groups, Collectives (2023 - 2024)

Abstract

Relational accounts of morality explain it in terms of the normative elements that constitute and characterize appropriate relations between agents. The idea is that morality consists of respecting and fulfilling the obligations that arise from the legitimate demands and claims others make upon us. Unlike ethical theories that link morality to internal mental entities such as a person’s will, incentives, and motivational dispositions, relational accounts of morality seem easily to integrate structured group agents such as organizations and corporations into the moral domain.

The project aims to explore in more detail the prospects of a relational reading of morality, particularly with respect to individual and collective moral responsibility.

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