Communities of Respect: Grounding Responsibility, Authority, and Dignity by Benn

Description: Communities of Respect by Bennett W. Helm Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Bennett W. Helm presents a new approach to understanding persons as responsible, rational agents, by developing an account of communities of respect and our place within them. Through the interplay of reactive attitudes, community members are held responsible to norms which shape their identities, as essentially social creatures. Publisher Description Communities of respect are communities of people sharing common practices or a (partial) way of life; they include families, clubs, religious groups, and political parties. This book develops a detailed account of such communities in terms of the rational structure of their members reactive attitudes: emotions like resentment, gratitude, guilt, approbation, and indignation, whereby people hold each other responsible to certain norms. Helm argues that thesecommunities are fundamental in three interrelated ways to understanding what it is to be a person. First, it is only by being a member of a community of respect that one can be a responsible agent havingdignity; such an agent therefore has certain rights as well as the authority to demand that fellow members recognize her dignity and follow the norms of the community, compliance with which norms they likewise have the authority to demand from her. Second, by prescribing or proscribing both actions and values, communities of respect can shape the identities of their members in ways that others have the authority to enforce, thereby revealing an important interpersonal dimension of theidentities of persons. Finally, all of this is grounded in a distinctively interpersonal form of practical rationality in virtue of which we jointly have reasons to recognize the dignity and authority of fellowmembers and so to comply with their authoritative demands, as well as to respect (and so comply with) the norms of the community. Hence we persons are essentially social creatures. Author Biography Bennett Helm is the Elijah E. Kresge Professor of Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania. His work focuses on understanding what it is to be a person and, in particular, the role the emotions and various forms of caring play in making us persons be moral creatures. He has received fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Templeton Foundation,and Princetons Center for Human Values. He is the author of Emotional Reason: Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy,Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons (Oxford University Press, 2010). Details ISBN 0198801866 ISBN-13 9780198801863 Title Communities of Respect Author Bennett W. Helm Format Hardcover Year 2017 Pages 274 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137032481; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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