Professor Fabienne Peter
Seminar
University of Warwick
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Event date
Wednesday 19 February 2025, 4pm to 5.30pm
Location
I/A/009, Sally Baldwin Buildings, Campus West, University of York (Map)
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Free admission, booking not required
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Relational Moral Demands
Relational moral theories hold that at least some moral demands are grounded in a relation between individuals. But how should this relation be understood? Most contemporary relational theories have an individuals-first structure: they presuppose that the moral relations that ground moral demands are determined by relational moral properties of the individuals involved. Radical relationalism, by contrast, has a relations-first structure: it holds that the moral relations that ground relational moral demands are normatively fundamental. My aim in this paper is to argue that some moral demands are radically relational.