Agency Morality And Law
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Agency Morality And Law
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Author : Joshua Jowitt
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-12
Agency Morality And Law written by Joshua Jowitt and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-12 with Law categories.
How does law possess the normative force it requires to direct our actions? This book argues that this seemingly innocuous question is of central importance to the philosophy of law and, by extension, of the very concept of law itself. It advances a position grounded in the secular natural law tradition, and in doing so addresses the two success criteria for this position head on: Firstly, that commitment to the existence of a supreme moral principle is required; Secondly, that any supreme moral principle must be identifiable through human reason. The book argues that these conditions are met by Alan Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency (PGC), which – through a dialectically necessary argument – locates the existence of universally applicable moral norms in the concept of agency. Given the very purpose of law is to guide action, legal norms must be located in a unified hierarchy of practical reason. It follows that, if law is to succeed in claiming to be capable of guiding our action, moral permissibility with reference to the PGC is a necessary condition of a rule's legal validity. This strong theory of natural law is defended throughout, both against moral sceptics and positions within contemporary legal positivism.
The Fallacy Of Corporate Moral Agency
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Author : David Rönnegard
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-12
The Fallacy Of Corporate Moral Agency written by David Rönnegard and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with Philosophy categories.
It is uncontroversial that corporations are legal agents that can be held legally responsible, but can corporations also be moral agents that are morally responsible? Part one of this book explicates the most prominent theories of corporate moral agency and provides a detailed debunking of why corporate moral agency is a fallacy. This implies that talk of corporate moral responsibilities, beyond the mere metaphorical, is essentially meaningless. Part two takes the fallacy of corporate moral agency as its premise and spells out its implications. It shows how prominent normative theories within Corporate Social Responsibility, such as Stakeholder Theory and Social Contract Theory, rest on an implicit assumption of corporate moral agency. In this metaphysical respect such theories are untenable. In order to provide a more robust metaphysical foundation for corporations the book explicates the development of the corporate legal form in the US and UK, which displays how the corporation has come to have its current legal attributes. This historical evolution shows that the corporation is a legal fiction created by the state in order to serve both public and private goals. The normative implication for corporate accountability is that citizens of democratic states ought to primarily make calls for legal enactments in order to hold the corporate legal instruments accountable to their preferences.
Agency Negligence And Responsibility
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Author : Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-04
Agency Negligence And Responsibility written by Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Law categories.
An agenda-setting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence.
Moral Agency And The Politics Of Responsibility
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Author : Cornelia Ulbert
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-13
Moral Agency And The Politics Of Responsibility written by Cornelia Ulbert and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-13 with Political Science categories.
At a time when globalization has side-lined many of the traditional, state-based addressees of legal accountability, it is not clear yet how blame is allocated and contested in the new, highly differentiated, multi-actor governance arrangements of the global economy and world society. Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility investigates how actors in complex governance arrangements assign responsibilities to order the world and negotiate who is responsible for what and how. The book asks how moral duties can be defined beyond the territorial and legal confines of the nation-state; and how obligations and accountability mechanisms for a post-national world, in which responsibility remains vague, ambiguous and contested, can be established. Using an empirical as well as a theoretical perspective, the book explores ontological framings of complexity emphasizing emergence and non-linearity, which challenge classic liberal notions of responsibility and moral agency based on the autonomous subject. Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility is perfect for scholars from International Relations, Politics, Philosophy and Political Economy with an interest in the topical and increasingly popular topics of moral agency and complexity.
Reasons And Intentions In Law And Practical Agency
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Author : George Pavlakos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Reasons And Intentions In Law And Practical Agency written by George Pavlakos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with LAW categories.
Morality And Agency
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Author : Robyn McPhail
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Morality And Agency written by Robyn McPhail and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Philosophy categories.
The authors argue that an understanding of human agency based on Spinoza's views can resolve the apparent conflict between the demands of happiness and the dictates of morality without damaging the unique values associated with the moral form of life espoused by Kant. Because Spinoza's views previously have been isolated from the main stream of moral philosophy in which Kant is the central figure, the insights presented in this text constitute a corrective for philosophical reflection on morality and ethics. Contents: include: Two Kinds of Value; Kant's Shadow Model of Moral Causality; Reflexive Decision-Making; Groundwork for a Transition to Spinoza; Spinoza's Account of Human Agency; Agency in Kant; Explaining Away the Evidence for Morality as a Form of Life; and The Unique Viability of the Moral Form of Life.
Agency And Autonomy In Kant S Moral Theory
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Author : Andrews Reath
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2006-02-23
Agency And Autonomy In Kant S Moral Theory written by Andrews Reath and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-23 with Philosophy categories.
Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy. The opening essays explore different elements of Kant's views about motivation, including his account of respect for morality as the distinctive moral motive and his view of the principle of happiness as a representation of the shared structure of non-moral choice. These essays stress the unity of Kant's moral psychology by arguing that moral and non-moral considerations motivate in essentially the same way. Several of the essays develop an original approach to Kant's conception of autonomy that emphasizes the political metaphors found throughout Kant's writings on ethics. They argue that autonomy is best interpreted not as a psychological capacity, but as a kind of sovereignty: in claiming that moral agents have autonomy, Kant regards them as a kind of sovereign legislator with the power to give moral law through their willing. The final essays explore some of the implications of this conception of autonomy elsewhere in Kant's moral thought, arguing that his Formula of Universal Law uses this conception of autonomy to generate substantive moral principles and exploring the connection between Kantian self-legislation and duties to oneself. The collection offers revised versions of several previously published essays, as well as two new papers, 'Autonomy of the Will as the Foundation of Morality' and 'Agency and Universal Law'. It will be of interest to all students and scholars of Kant, and to many moral philosophers.
Morals Of Legitimacy
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Author : Italo Pardo
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Morals Of Legitimacy written by Italo Pardo and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Social Science categories.
With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and Africa, anthropologists and legal scholars investigate the morally diversified definitions of legitimacy that co-exist in any one society. Aware of the tensions between state morality and community morality, they offer reflections on the relationship between agency - individual and collective - and the legal and political systems. In a situation in which politics has only too often degenerated into vacuous rhetoric, this volume demonstrates how critical the relationship between trust and legitimacy is for the authoritative exercise of power in democratic societies.
The Routledge Handbook Of Philosophy Of Agency
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Author : Luca Ferrero
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-01-26
The Routledge Handbook Of Philosophy Of Agency written by Luca Ferrero and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-26 with Philosophy categories.
One of the most basic and important distinctions we draw is between those entities with the capacity of agency and those without. As humans we enjoy agency in its full-blooded form and therefore a proper understanding of the nature of agency is of great importance to appreciate who we are and what we should expect and demand of our existence. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency is an outstanding reference source to the key issues, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising 42 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into eight clear parts: The Metaphysics of Agency Kinds of Agency Agency and Ability Agency: Mind, Body, and World Agency and Knowledge Agency and Moral Psychology Agency and Time Agency, Reasoning, and Normativity. A broad range of topics are covered, including the relation of agency to causation, teleology, animal agency, intentionality, planning, skills, disability, practical knowledge, self-knowledge, the will, responsibility, autonomy, identification, emotions, personal identity, reasons, morality, the law, aesthetics, and games. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency is essential reading for students and researchers within philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of psychology, and ethics.
Oxford Studies In Agency And Responsibility Volume 1
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Author : David Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Agency and R
Release Date : 2013-08-08
Oxford Studies In Agency And Responsibility Volume 1 written by David Shoemaker and has been published by Oxford Studies in Agency and R this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with Law categories.
This book discusses questions such as: what does it mean to be an agent? what is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility? and what do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility?