FM: Tell us more about your book, “What We Owe to Each Other.” What is the central message of the book, and how does it feature in “The Good Place?”, The central chapters, chapters four and five, set out and defend a way of thinking about a certain aspect of morality I want to call “what we owe to each other.” This doesn’t cover all of what we normally call “morality,” but it captures a central section of it: Our obligations to other people in general. Hope you’re doing well, Professor. The normative domain of what we owe to each other is meant to encompass those duties to other people which we bear in virtue of their standing as rational creatures. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. In turn, these values must accommodate the dictates of what we owe to each other to the extent that they involve relations with others, who have separate moral standing.[21]. A broader conception of morality includes whatever else we may owe to specific people, such as the special obligations we bear in relations with friends and family, or whatever else morality may require of us, such as the way in which we treat ourselves or nature. It would be―and will be―the business of more than one doctoral thesis to assess his success.”. Of course, I wrote a book and I hoped people would read it, but, anyway, it was a shock. FM: The ‘Good Place’ and the ‘Bad Place’ both exist in the universe of the show. I had a student named Pamela Hieronymi who was a graduate student here, and now teaches at UCLA. [19] So if the generic reasons of an individual carry more weight than any other individual's generic reasons, then his generic reasons are (for the most part) decisive in determining principles. I purchased this book in the hopes it would be a refreshing break from reading varied translations of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard but I Kant lie here... King James put out a smoother read. His teaching in the department has included courses on theories of justice, equality, and recent ethical theory. [18] Importantly, principles can only be rejected by individuals; aggregation of reasons across individuals is not allowed. I’m not a philosopher and have not read any philosophy for thirty-five years. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong. Contractualism is a constructivist attempt at providing a unified account of the subject matter of a central part of morality which Scanlon calls "what we owe to each other". This grabs your attention because it well written. There was this one scene where somebody mentions to [the protagonist] Eleanor that she ought to be concerned with “what we what we owe to each other.” She Googles it, and she comes up with a YouTube video of Chidi [a character who is a philosophy professor] giving a lecture in which he says: “As the philosopher Tim Scanlon said decades ago…” [laugh] That was really, really weird to see. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. FM sat down with Scanlon to chat about "The Good Place," the definition … I passed my final exam. It’s sort of like having your child chosen to be in the school play. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. I think he was clearly going through something. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. [10] A way of living with others which is typified by an ideal of mutual recognition between rational agents, where mutual recognition demands that moral agents acknowledge the value of human life and respond to this value in the right ways. In a famous play called “No Exit,” philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre says hell is other people. Good text but requires an engaged professor, Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2019. Interview with Fifteen Minutes Magazine, The Harvard Crimson. Meanwhile, Chidi agrees to be the third wheel in an effort to help out his friend. FM: Which character do you most identify with? Reviewed in Singapore on February 24, 2020. [20] Therefore, that a principle would negatively affect a person's well-being is not the only kind of reason which may be brought against a principle. TV: The Good Place - Chidi Anagonye, “[Scanlon's] discussions are deep and honest, and they illuminate many key concepts of moral philosophy: well being, trust, friendship, loyalty, promises. Scanlon grounds the reason-giving force of judgements about right and wrong in "the positive value of a way of living with others". [7] Further, they are a particularly important class of practical claims in that the judgement that an action is wrong is taken to provide reasons to not do that action which are most often considered to be decisive against competing reasons.

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