The Importance of Assent

by Van Der Rijt, Jan-willem

• ISBN13: 9789400707658
• ISBN10: 9400707657
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-26
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book argues that respecting persons as moral agents requires considerable consideration be paid to the subjective moral judgments of individual persons.#xA0;It shows that such judgements are important independently of their validity or even their reasonableness. Despite the great emphasis on respect for persons in present-day moral theory, the importance of a person's subjective moral judgments has largely been neglected in existing literature. The#xA0;book focuses particularly on the context of coercion and domination, both key notions in moral and political theory.#xA0;The book combines Kantian and republican insights, two prominent present-day traditions which are rarely brought together even though they share many similar concerns.