Benjamin Lange
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Lange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lange |
| SIGNATURE | LANGE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5809-8704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Partiality and Meaning
Why do relationships of friendship and love support partiality, but not relationships of hatred or commitments of racism? Where does partiality end and why? I take the intuitive starting point that important cases of partiality are meaningful. I develop a view whereby meaning is understood in terms of transcending self-limitations in order to connect with things of external value. I then show how this view can be used to distinguish central cases…
Moral parenthood and gestation
Moral parenthood
Parenting our biological children is a centrally important matter, but how, if it all, can it be justified? According to a contemporary influential line of thinking, the acquisition by parents of a moral right to parent their biological children should be grounded by appeal to the value of the intimate emotional relationship that gestation facilitates between a newborn and a gestational procreator. I evaluate two arguments in defence of this prop…
Wer spricht zuerst
Digital Duplicates and Collective Scarcity
Digital duplicates reduce the scarcity of individuals and thus may impact their instrumental and intrinsic value. I here expand upon this idea by introducing the notion of collective scarcity, which pertains to the limitations faced by social groups in maintaining their size, cohesion and function
A Project View of the Right to Parent
The institution of the family and its importance have recently received considerable attention from political theorists. Leading views maintain that the institution's justification is grounded, at least in part, in the non‐instrumental value of the parent–child relationship itself. Such views face the challenge of identifying a specific good in the parent–child relationship that can account for how adults acquire parental rights over a particular…
The impact of intelligent decision-support systems on humans' ethical decision-making
With the rise and public accessibility of AI-enabled decision-support systems, individuals outsource increasingly more of their decisions, even those that carry ethical dimensions. Considering this trend, scholars have highlighted that uncritical deference to these systems would be problematic and consequently called for investigations of the impact of pertinent technology on humans' ethical decision-making. To this end, this article conducts a s…
Partiality, Asymmetries, and Morality's Harmonious Propensity
We argue for asymmetries between positive and negative partiality. Specifically, we defend four claims: i) there are forms of negative partiality that do not have positive counterparts; ii) the directionality of personal relationships has distinct effects on positive and negative partiality; iii) the extent of the interactions within a relationship affects positive and negative partiality differently; and iv) positive and negative partiality have…
The ethics of partiality
Partiality is the special concern that we display for ourselves and other people with whom we stand in some special personal relationship. It is a central theme in moral philosophy, both ancient and modern. Questions about the justification of partiality arise in the context of enquiry into several moral topics, including the good life and the role in it of our personal commitments; the demands of impartial morality, equality, and other moral ide…
Der Richter und seine Ankläger
Das Johannesevangelium ist durch die häufige Erwähnung von Zeugen, Anklagen, verhörartigen Befragungen und anderen Bestandteilen eines Gerichtsprozesses stark von forensischen Termini und Motiven des Rechtsstreites geprägt. Doch weshalb fehlt gerade in diesem Evangelium ein formeller Prozess vor dem jüdischen Synedrium? Durch eine detaillierte narrative Untersuchung zeigt Benjamin Lange, dass bereits die erste Hälfte des Evangeliums einen metapho…
Other‐Sacrificing Options
I argue that you can be permitted to discount the interests of your adversaries even though doing so would be impartially suboptimal. This means that, in addition to the kinds of moral options that the literature traditionally recognises, there exist what I call other‐sacrificing options . I explore the idea that you cannot discount the interests of your adversaries as much as you can favour the interests of your intimates; if this is correct, th…
Restricted Prioritarianism or Competing Claims
I here settle a recent dispute between two rival theories in distributive ethics: Restricted Prioritarianism and the Competing Claims View . Both views mandate that the distribution of benefits and burdens between individuals should be justifiable to each affected party in a way that depends on the strength of each individual's separately assessed claim to receive a benefit. However, they disagree about what elements constitute the strength of th…
The ethics of partiality
Partiality is the special concern that we display for ourselves and other people with whom we stand in some special personal relationship. It is a central theme in moral philosophy, both ancient and modern. Questions about the justification of partiality arise in the context of enquiry into several moral topics, including the good life and the role in it of our personal commitments; the demands of impartial morality, equality, and other moral ide…
Other‐Sacrificing Options
I argue that you can be permitted to discount the interests of your adversaries even though doing so would be impartially suboptimal. This means that, in addition to the kinds of moral options that the literature traditionally recognises, there exist what I call other‐sacrificing options . I explore the idea that you cannot discount the interests of your adversaries as much as you can favour the interests of your intimates; if this is correct, th…
Partiality, Asymmetries, and Morality's Harmonious Propensity
We argue for asymmetries between positive and negative partiality. Specifically, we defend four claims: i) there are forms of negative partiality that do not have positive counterparts; ii) the directionality of personal relationships has distinct effects on positive and negative partiality; iii) the extent of the interactions within a relationship affects positive and negative partiality differently; and iv) positive and negative partiality have…
Restricted Prioritarianism or Competing Claims
I here settle a recent dispute between two rival theories in distributive ethics: Restricted Prioritarianism and the Competing Claims View . Both views mandate that the distribution of benefits and burdens between individuals should be justifiable to each affected party in a way that depends on the strength of each individual's separately assessed claim to receive a benefit. However, they disagree about what elements constitute the strength of th…
Restricted Prioritarianism or Competing Claims
I here settle a recent dispute between two rival theories in distributive ethics: Restricted Prioritarianism and the Competing Claims View . Both views mandate that the distribution of benefits and burdens between individuals should be justifiable to each affected party in a way that depends on the strength of each individual's separately assessed claim to receive a benefit. However, they disagree about what elements constitute the strength of th…
Der Richter und seine Ankläger
Das Johannesevangelium ist durch die häufige Erwähnung von Zeugen, Anklagen, verhörartigen Befragungen und anderen Bestandteilen eines Gerichtsprozesses stark von forensischen Termini und Motiven des Rechtsstreites geprägt. Doch weshalb fehlt gerade in diesem Evangelium ein formeller Prozess vor dem jüdischen Synedrium? Durch eine detaillierte narrative Untersuchung zeigt Benjamin Lange, dass bereits die erste Hälfte des Evangeliums einen metapho…
Other‐Sacrificing Options
I argue that you can be permitted to discount the interests of your adversaries even though doing so would be impartially suboptimal. This means that, in addition to the kinds of moral options that the literature traditionally recognises, there exist what I call other‐sacrificing options . I explore the idea that you cannot discount the interests of your adversaries as much as you can favour the interests of your intimates; if this is correct, th…
The ethics of partiality
Partiality is the special concern that we display for ourselves and other people with whom we stand in some special personal relationship. It is a central theme in moral philosophy, both ancient and modern. Questions about the justification of partiality arise in the context of enquiry into several moral topics, including the good life and the role in it of our personal commitments; the demands of impartial morality, equality, and other moral ide…
Partiality, Asymmetries, and Morality's Harmonious Propensity
We argue for asymmetries between positive and negative partiality. Specifically, we defend four claims: i) there are forms of negative partiality that do not have positive counterparts; ii) the directionality of personal relationships has distinct effects on positive and negative partiality; iii) the extent of the interactions within a relationship affects positive and negative partiality differently; and iv) positive and negative partiality have…
A Project View of the Right to Parent
The institution of the family and its importance have recently received considerable attention from political theorists. Leading views maintain that the institution's justification is grounded, at least in part, in the non‐instrumental value of the parent–child relationship itself. Such views face the challenge of identifying a specific good in the parent–child relationship that can account for how adults acquire parental rights over a particular…
The impact of intelligent decision-support systems on humans' ethical decision-making
With the rise and public accessibility of AI-enabled decision-support systems, individuals outsource increasingly more of their decisions, even those that carry ethical dimensions. Considering this trend, scholars have highlighted that uncritical deference to these systems would be problematic and consequently called for investigations of the impact of pertinent technology on humans' ethical decision-making. To this end, this article conducts a s…
Partiality and Meaning
Why do relationships of friendship and love support partiality, but not relationships of hatred or commitments of racism? Where does partiality end and why? I take the intuitive starting point that important cases of partiality are meaningful. I develop a view whereby meaning is understood in terms of transcending self-limitations in order to connect with things of external value. I then show how this view can be used to distinguish central cases…
Moral parenthood and gestation
Moral parenthood
Parenting our biological children is a centrally important matter, but how, if it all, can it be justified? According to a contemporary influential line of thinking, the acquisition by parents of a moral right to parent their biological children should be grounded by appeal to the value of the intimate emotional relationship that gestation facilitates between a newborn and a gestational procreator. I evaluate two arguments in defence of this prop…
Wer spricht zuerst
Digital Duplicates and Collective Scarcity
Digital duplicates reduce the scarcity of individuals and thus may impact their instrumental and intrinsic value. I here expand upon this idea by introducing the notion of collective scarcity, which pertains to the limitations faced by social groups in maintaining their size, cohesion and function
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