A defense of the relational account of morality
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In this essay I shall defend the thesis that morality is an intrinsically relational normative domain constituted by relational claims and corresponding directed duties. On the relational approach to morality, moral considerations are requirements on one's agency that are grounded in the claims that particular others have against the agent. My central thesis is that all moral obligations are directed duties: an agent A has a moral obligation to do X if and only if A owes a duty to some patient B to do X. Moral wrongs, it follows, always wrong someone.
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M.A.