Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: I argue that we have reasons to blame wrongdoers for their own sake. Then, I offer an account of the nature of these reasons. One of blame’s key functions, I suggest, is to express concern for wrongdoers’ quality of will—a form of concern I call contribution recognition. We can disrespect people by treating them as though the quality of will expressed in their moral contributions (specifically, their blameworthy actions) does not much matter. Conversely, we can affirm a person’s moral significance or significance to us by expressing concern with her quality of will.
Source: Ethics
DOI: 10.1086/733912
Author: Andrew Lichter
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4408537953