Professor Fabienne Peter University of Warwick

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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.