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Redeeming Relative Value: Indexicality and Consequentializing Agent‐Centered Norms

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robert Nozick doubted forms of consequentialism that employ so‐called “agent‐relative value” because he found them “gimmicky.” This doubt has been sharpened by Don Regan, Mark Schroeder, and others into the objection that agent‐relative value lacks the practical importance we associate with good simpliciter.
Nathan Robert Howard
wiley   +1 more source

Discours de la honte et de l'entre‐deux linguistique et culturel chez les écrivains « transfuges » Annie Ernaux, Nicolas Mathieu et Lori Saint‐Martin

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Résumé En s'appuyant sur la théorie bourdieusienne, le présent article se donne pour objectif d'analyser comment le « transfuge de classe » devient un élément incontournable et un moyen primordial d'ascension sociale dans La Place (1983) d'Annie Ernaux, Connemara (2022) de Nicolas Mathieu et Pour qui je me prends (2020) de Lori Saint‐Martin. L'étude de
Anna Ledwina   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
wiley   +1 more source

Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
wiley   +1 more source

Difference‐Making Under Metaphysical Indeterminacy

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many of the most pressing moral problems we face involve collective harms generated by large numbers of individually insignificant actions. Unlike triggering cases—where a threshold exists such that a single act could be decisive—non‐triggering cases lack any such sharp cutoff.
Jessica Li
wiley   +1 more source

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