Constraints, you, and your victims

Bibliographic Data

ID21364192
AuthorsBastian Steuwer (0000-0001-6532-3845, Department of Political Science Ashoka University Rajiv Gandhi Education City Sonepath India, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume57
Issue4
Pages942-957
Publication date2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNoûs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0029-4624 • E-ISSN: 1468-0068
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/nous.12436
OpenAlexW4307952005
LanguageEN
References cited46

Deontologists believe that it is wrong to violate a right even if this will prevent a greater number of violations of the same right. This leads to the paradox of deontology: If respecting everyone's rights is equally important, why should we not minimize the number of rights violations? One possible answer is agent‐based. This answer points out that you should not violate rights even if this will prevent someone else's violations. In this paper, I defend a relational agent‐based justification that focuses on the relation in which the agent stands to her would‐be victims. I argue that this justification can avoid two key objections levelled against agent‐based justifications: It can explain why we are not permitted to minimize our own rights violations, and the justification avoids the charge of being excessively self‐concerned

Computer security · Deontological ethics · Key (lock) · Law and economics · Political science · Relation (database) · Sociology · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Law · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · War, Ethics, and Justification