Simon Căbulea May
Biographic Data
| ID | 1078436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Căbulea May |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon Căbulea |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9420-8480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Address, Interests, and Directed Duties
Rowan Cruft offers an addressive account of directed duties and claim‐rights. He claims that the direction of a duty is constituted by two requirements of address between the parties: the right holder must conceive of the action as ‘to be done to me’ and the duty bearer must conceive of it as to be ‘done to you’. Cruft also argues against accounts of direction and claim‐rights that reduce the relation between the parties to nonrelational facts. O…
Interactive justice and democratic authority
I raise two critical points about Ceva’s theory of interactive justice. First, I argue the value of individual dignity is insufficient in itself to establish principles of interactive justice, but that the lacuna can be filled by an account of democratic authority. Second, I argue that realising interactive justice in political conflict management is better understood as a form of quasi-pure proceduralism rather than intrinsic proceduralism. This…
Directed Duties
Directed duties are duties that an agent owes to some party - a party who would be wronged if the duty were violated. A 'direction problem' asks what it is about a duty in virtue of which it is directed towards one party, if any, rather than another. I discuss three theories of moral direction: control, demand and interest theories. Although none of these theories can be rejected out of hand, all three face serious difficulties
Justice, legitimacy and (normative) authority for political realists
I argue that some instances of constitutional religious establishment can be consistent with an expressivist interpretation of democratic legitimacy. Whether official religious endorsements disparage or exclude religious minorities depends on a number of contextual considerations, including the philosophical content of the religion in question, the attitudes of the majority, and the underlying purpose of the official status of the religious doctr…
Democratic legitimacy, legal expressivism, and religious establishment
I argue that some instances of constitutional religious establishment can be consistent with an expressivist interpretation of democratic legitimacy. Whether official religious endorsements disparage or exclude religious minorities depends on a number of contextual considerations, including the philosophical content of the religion in question, the attitudes of the majority, and the underlying purpose of the official status of the religious doctr…
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game
Nietzsche's thought it is necessary to propose the elements of an affirmation of life that is free of theodicy. Nietzsche diagnoses it to genuine life-affirmation need to consider the extraordinarily radical account of life-denial that emerges from the Genealogy. Intense effort has been devoted to reconstructing Nietzsche's portrayal of the values and concepts structured by slave morality and their search for transcendence of time, causality, fat…
Moral compromise, civic friendship, and political reconciliation
Instrumentalism about moral compromise in politics appears inconsistent with accepting both the existence of non-instrumental or principled reasons for moral compromise in close personal friendships and a rich ideal of civic friendship. Using a robust conception of political reconciliation during democratic transitions as an example of civic friendship, I argue that all three claims are compatible. Spouses have principled reasons for compromise b…
Introduction: Symposium on Democratic Rights
Nihilism and the Free Self
This chapter argues that a central, but usually overlooked, condition for attaining freedom in Nietzsche's sense is to overcome that most fundamental form of ressentiment: against time. Time is the ‘dimension’ of living that makes us feel most powerless (and so is the greatest stimulus to ressentiment). Unlike that better-known object of ressentiment, the ‘masterly type’, which can be subdued through ‘slave morality’, and especially through a cer…
Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy
Nietzsche is a central figure in our modern understanding of the individual as freely determining his or her own values. These essays by leading Nietzsche scholars investigate what this freedom really means.
Religious Democracy and the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy
The Two Faces of Justice
Book Review| July 01 2008 The Two Faces of Justice Jiwei Ci, The Two Faces of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. viii + 252 pp. Simon Căbulea May Simon Căbulea May Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 448–451. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simon Căbulea Ma…
Utilitarianism: Restorations, Repairs, Renovations
Book Review| January 01 2007 Utilitarianism: Restorations, Repairs, Renovations David Braybrooke, Utilitarianism: Restorations, Repairs, Renovations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. ix + 212 pp. Simon Căbulea May Simon Căbulea May Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (1): 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-026 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Sear…
Principled Compromise and the Abortion Controversy
Nietzsche’s Ethics and his War on ‘Morality’
Simon May presents a fresh and wide-ranging critique of Nietzsche's famous attack on traditional morality, and of his controversial ethics of 'life-enhancement'. He reveals Nietzsche as both revolutionary and conservative-as one who repudiates traditional 'moral' conceptions of God, guilt, asceticism, pity, and truthfulness, and yet retains a demanding ethics of discipline, conscience, 'self-creation', generosity, and honesty. In particular, May …
West European Security Collaboration: Driving Forces and Prospects
What are the precise objectives of such co-operation? What are the real interests that underlie it? Why is it being raised just now? And how would it affect existing institutions devoted to security, notably the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato). These are very fair questions. They are, on the whole, peremptorily treated, even in Western Europe and even among those who sit most comfortably on this accelerating bandwagon. It is to their an…
Principled Compromise and the Abortion Controversy
Religious Democracy and the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy
Directed Duties
Directed duties are duties that an agent owes to some party - a party who would be wronged if the duty were violated. A 'direction problem' asks what it is about a duty in virtue of which it is directed towards one party, if any, rather than another. I discuss three theories of moral direction: control, demand and interest theories. Although none of these theories can be rejected out of hand, all three face serious difficulties
Democratic legitimacy, legal expressivism, and religious establishment
I argue that some instances of constitutional religious establishment can be consistent with an expressivist interpretation of democratic legitimacy. Whether official religious endorsements disparage or exclude religious minorities depends on a number of contextual considerations, including the philosophical content of the religion in question, the attitudes of the majority, and the underlying purpose of the official status of the religious doctr…
Moral compromise, civic friendship, and political reconciliation
Instrumentalism about moral compromise in politics appears inconsistent with accepting both the existence of non-instrumental or principled reasons for moral compromise in close personal friendships and a rich ideal of civic friendship. Using a robust conception of political reconciliation during democratic transitions as an example of civic friendship, I argue that all three claims are compatible. Spouses have principled reasons for compromise b…
West European Security Collaboration: Driving Forces and Prospects
What are the precise objectives of such co-operation? What are the real interests that underlie it? Why is it being raised just now? And how would it affect existing institutions devoted to security, notably the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato). These are very fair questions. They are, on the whole, peremptorily treated, even in Western Europe and even among those who sit most comfortably on this accelerating bandwagon. It is to their an…
West European Security Collaboration: Driving Forces and Prospects
What are the precise objectives of such co-operation? What are the real interests that underlie it? Why is it being raised just now? And how would it affect existing institutions devoted to security, notably the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato). These are very fair questions. They are, on the whole, peremptorily treated, even in Western Europe and even among those who sit most comfortably on this accelerating bandwagon. It is to their an…
Nietzsche’s Ethics and his War on ‘Morality’
Simon May presents a fresh and wide-ranging critique of Nietzsche's famous attack on traditional morality, and of his controversial ethics of 'life-enhancement'. He reveals Nietzsche as both revolutionary and conservative-as one who repudiates traditional 'moral' conceptions of God, guilt, asceticism, pity, and truthfulness, and yet retains a demanding ethics of discipline, conscience, 'self-creation', generosity, and honesty. In particular, May …
Principled Compromise and the Abortion Controversy
Utilitarianism: Restorations, Repairs, Renovations
Book Review| January 01 2007 Utilitarianism: Restorations, Repairs, Renovations David Braybrooke, Utilitarianism: Restorations, Repairs, Renovations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. ix + 212 pp. Simon Căbulea May Simon Căbulea May Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (1): 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-026 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Sear…
The Two Faces of Justice
Book Review| July 01 2008 The Two Faces of Justice Jiwei Ci, The Two Faces of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. viii + 252 pp. Simon Căbulea May Simon Căbulea May Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 448–451. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simon Căbulea Ma…
Nihilism and the Free Self
This chapter argues that a central, but usually overlooked, condition for attaining freedom in Nietzsche's sense is to overcome that most fundamental form of ressentiment: against time. Time is the ‘dimension’ of living that makes us feel most powerless (and so is the greatest stimulus to ressentiment). Unlike that better-known object of ressentiment, the ‘masterly type’, which can be subdued through ‘slave morality’, and especially through a cer…
Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy
Nietzsche is a central figure in our modern understanding of the individual as freely determining his or her own values. These essays by leading Nietzsche scholars investigate what this freedom really means.
Religious Democracy and the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game
Nietzsche's thought it is necessary to propose the elements of an affirmation of life that is free of theodicy. Nietzsche diagnoses it to genuine life-affirmation need to consider the extraordinarily radical account of life-denial that emerges from the Genealogy. Intense effort has been devoted to reconstructing Nietzsche's portrayal of the values and concepts structured by slave morality and their search for transcendence of time, causality, fat…
Moral compromise, civic friendship, and political reconciliation
Instrumentalism about moral compromise in politics appears inconsistent with accepting both the existence of non-instrumental or principled reasons for moral compromise in close personal friendships and a rich ideal of civic friendship. Using a robust conception of political reconciliation during democratic transitions as an example of civic friendship, I argue that all three claims are compatible. Spouses have principled reasons for compromise b…
Introduction: Symposium on Democratic Rights
Democratic legitimacy, legal expressivism, and religious establishment
I argue that some instances of constitutional religious establishment can be consistent with an expressivist interpretation of democratic legitimacy. Whether official religious endorsements disparage or exclude religious minorities depends on a number of contextual considerations, including the philosophical content of the religion in question, the attitudes of the majority, and the underlying purpose of the official status of the religious doctr…
Justice, legitimacy and (normative) authority for political realists
I argue that some instances of constitutional religious establishment can be consistent with an expressivist interpretation of democratic legitimacy. Whether official religious endorsements disparage or exclude religious minorities depends on a number of contextual considerations, including the philosophical content of the religion in question, the attitudes of the majority, and the underlying purpose of the official status of the religious doctr…
Directed Duties
Directed duties are duties that an agent owes to some party - a party who would be wronged if the duty were violated. A 'direction problem' asks what it is about a duty in virtue of which it is directed towards one party, if any, rather than another. I discuss three theories of moral direction: control, demand and interest theories. Although none of these theories can be rejected out of hand, all three face serious difficulties
Interactive justice and democratic authority
I raise two critical points about Ceva’s theory of interactive justice. First, I argue the value of individual dignity is insufficient in itself to establish principles of interactive justice, but that the lacuna can be filled by an account of democratic authority. Second, I argue that realising interactive justice in political conflict management is better understood as a form of quasi-pure proceduralism rather than intrinsic proceduralism. This…
Address, Interests, and Directed Duties
Rowan Cruft offers an addressive account of directed duties and claim‐rights. He claims that the direction of a duty is constituted by two requirements of address between the parties: the right holder must conceive of the action as ‘to be done to me’ and the duty bearer must conceive of it as to be ‘done to you’. Cruft also argues against accounts of direction and claim‐rights that reduce the relation between the parties to nonrelational facts. O…
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