... 2014 by Cornell University 2014 Hassoun Nicole , Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . xii +235 pp. ...

... Obligations to the Other Animals.” The conclusion of her argument is that “we are committed to the view of animals as ends in themselves” (150) because “we recognize them to be fellow creatures, with a good of their own just like ours” (148). She agrees with Kant that “our moral relations to animals have...

...Peter B. M. Vranas The claim that (OIC) “ought” implies “can” (i.e., you have an obligation only at times at which you can obey it) entails that (1) obligations that become infeasible are lost (i.e., you stop having an obligation when you become unable to obey it). Moreover, the claim that (2...

... of them have proposed counterexamples to it. Using a novel account of desire, this essay handles the proposed counterexamples in a way that shows the superiority of the Humean theory. The essay addresses the classic objection that the Humean theory cannot explain the feeling of obligation, Stephen...

... and obligation. Section 5 takes stock and reassesses the score in the debate. epistemic consequentialism epistemic deontology epistemic value epistemic justification ethics of belief While there has been a recent backlash against epistemic consequentialism, an explicit systematic alternative has...

... that have been offered for it. Toward the end, a proposal about moral obligation according to which something like a restricted version of 'Ought' Implies 'Can' is true is floated. Though no full-fledged argument for this proposal is offered, that it fits with a rather natural and intuitive picture...

...: Oxford University Press. Pufendorf, Samuel. 2003 [1673]. The Whole Duty of Man . Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund. Rawls, John. 1981 . A Theory of Justice . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Raz, Joseph. 1977 . “Promises and Obligations.” In Law, Morality and Society , ed. Peter...

... recommendations for the politically and morally perplexed citizen. The first thesis A Duty to Resist advances is that the political obligations of citizens in real-world, advanced democratic states include not just the obligation to obey the law but also, and perhaps more crucially, the obligation to resist...

... both in identifying God with the Good and, more distinctively, in including a divine command theory of moral obligation. Read- ers familiar with Adams’s earlier divine command theory will recall that in response to the worry that God might command something evil, Adams intro- duced an independent...

.... The mere fact that I feel insulted when you don’t believe me doesn’t entail that I was insulted, let alone that I was wronged. If I extend my friendship toward you, and you politely and courteously decline it, I may feel rebuffed. But on this basis, we can’t infer that you were morally obligated to become...

... a “paradox” found in commonsense morality and Kant: (i) I am obligated to help oth- ers. (ii) I am not obligated to help myself. (iii) Commonsense morality 126 BOOK REVlEWS and Kant explain this asymmetry by claiming that I am...

..., expressed in the various human virtues.” Aquinas is the hero, locating obligation, conscience, and moral law in an Aristotelian framework. But Irwin finds Aristotelian naturalism at work in later figures from Grotius to Joseph Butler. Enter Stephen Darwall, who has been thinking about these issues...

... theorists of political obligation. His early book Moral Principles and Political Obligations (Princeton University Press, 1979) set the standard for philosophical writing about what we owe to the state in the way of support for its institutions and obedience to its laws, and he pursued this same theme...

.... The book is framed in terms of our collective obligations . That is, it focuses on makes claims about what we should do, not what I should do. To my mind, this is a valuable focus for work in practical ethics. Much recent work has attempted to theorize the underlying nature or structure of collective...

... . Such rights are “internally relational” (50), typically involving a special status of obligation to particular individuals. When X has a demand right against Y to Y's ϕ-ing, Y is pro tanto obligated to X to ϕ, and owes X his ϕ-ing. X has the standing to demand of Y that they ϕ. Such demands are more...

... with our collective obligation—as the group of food purchasers—not to support factory farming. Plainly, most members of the group ignore the collective obligation, purchasing factory-farmed meat anyway. What should the rest of us do? He suggests that we should dissociate ourselves from the group's...

..., Govert. 1998 . “A Conventionalist Theory of Obligation.” Law and Philosophy 17 : 351 -76. Fried, Charles. 1981 . Contract as Promise . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Fuller, Lon, and William Perdue. 1936 . “The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages.” Yale Law Journal 46 : 52...

... and practical) challenges of child-rearing, but they may also find a source of inspiration here. On this account, the obligations of the liberal state with regard to assisted reproduction are minimal and largely restricted to nonintervention: the state “has no obligation to ensure that citizens have access...

... ( MM 6:230). In contrast, “rights” are powers to obligate others. For Kant, right (b) is the ground of rights. The usufruct argument has Kant saying something like this: 1. I have the physical power to make use of unoccupied objects. 2. Assume I did not have the rightful power to make...

... of the explanatory middle term, as follows: (1) An obligation to avoid this now belongs to temperate human beings. (2) Temperate human being belongs to me. Therefore, an obligation to avoid this now belongs to me. In English: I should avoid this now because temperate...