Idealized versus Real-Life Reciprocity
How to Strike the Balance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5819383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aafke Komter (corresponding author), Aafke Elisabeth Komter |
| Editors | Bart van Klink |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 158-171 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2213-0713 • E-ISSN: 2213-0721 |
| Publisher | Uitgeverij Boom (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.5553/njlp/.000010 |
| OpenAlex | W4148559 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Idealized versus Real-Life Reciprocity: How to Strike the Balance? Rawls’s ’idealized’ notion of reciprocity is compared with the ’real-life’ concept of reciprocity as it has been developed in social scientific theory. The two perspectives appear to differ significantly as concerns dimensions related to equality, human motivation, the temporal aspects of reciprocity, and the supposed mental origin of reciprocity. Whereas norms of obligation and feelings of moral indebtedness are constitutive for reciprocity in real-life encounters, equality, freedom and rationality are the basis for reciprocity in the hypothetical world of the ’conjectural account’. Rather than being fundamentally incompatible, the idealized and the real-life perspectives on reciprocity seem to apply to different spheres of social life, the first requiring greater formality and universality than the second, which allows for more variation and particularities.
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |