Relationality without obligation

Analysis 82 (2):238-246 (2022)
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Some reasons are thought to depend on relations between people, such as that of a promiser to a promisee. It has sometimes been assumed that all reasons that are relational in this way are moral obligations. I argue, via a counter example, that there are non-obligatory relational reasons. If true, this has ramifications for relational theories of morality.

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James H. P. Lewis
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The Moral Nexus.R. Jay Wallace - 2019 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Relational Primitivism.Ariel Zylberman - 2019 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 102 (2):401-422.

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