ON THE APPROPRIATENESS OF HOLDING MORALLY ACCOUNTABLE

• Authors: Sun Haozhan , Dragoun Ivo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Our everyday social interactions involve holding others morally accountable for their wrongdoings. Sometimes such holdings might be inappropriate. For instance, it feels inappropriate if the person holding another morally accountable is in some relevant sense morally compromised. Thus a thief chastising a thief would strike us as somewhat odd. We might, when witnessing such behaviour, want to remind the chastiser that he is not in a position to reprimand others. But what if none of us are ever in such a position? In this paper we will argue that all men are irremediably morally compromised, and conclude that, ultimately, it is never appropriate for us to hold others morally accountable.

Keywords

EN

HOLDING ACCOUNTABLE; MORAL STANDING

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 348 – 375

Contributors

author

Sun Haozhan

• Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, 318 Liuhe Rd, Xihu, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4457-7595

author

Dragoun Ivo

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4189-8657

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29303