Normative Subjects - Self and Collectivity in Morality and Law

Combining constructivist and hermeneutical themes, this book explores normative aspects of human self creation seen as a matter of fixing and elaborating the values and norms that shape human identity, individually and collectively. The book focuses especially on a conception of dignity as the value that accrues to us qua authors of the meanings constitutive of human life.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments and Provenance


• Introduction


• Part I. Construction and Revision


• 1. Constructing Subjects


• 2. Socializing Harry


• 3. Revising Our Pasts


• 4. Regret, Luck, and Identity


• Part II. Value and Humanity


• 5. Individuals, Citizens, Persons


• 6. Dignity and Self-Creation


• 7. A Morality of Crime and Punishment


• Part III. Collective Subjects


• 8. Collective Personhoods


• 9. Sanctioning Corporations


• 10. Freedoms of Collective Speech


• Index

About the author

Meir Dan-Cohen is Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics, School of Law and Affiliated Professor, Department of Philosophy, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Rights, Persons, and Organizations (2nd Edition 2016), and Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self and Morality (2002).

Summary

Combining constructivist and hermeneutical themes, this book explores normative aspects of human self creation seen as a matter of fixing and elaborating the values and norms that shape human identity, individually and collectively. The book focuses especially on a conception of dignity as the value that accrues to us qua authors of the meanings constitutive of human life.

Additional text

Meir Dan-Cohen's book is challenging and philosophically rich in all the best ways. Its more ethereal Kantian aspects are leavened by his lawyerly knowledge, and its sensible humanism is deepened by his capacity for trenchant philosophical analysis. One hopes that its essays will provide opportunities for careful critique and its book-like qualities will invite ambitious philosophical theory constructors in years to come.

Product details

• Authors: Meir Dan-Cohen, Meir (Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Dan-Cohen, Meir (Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics Dan-Cohen, Dan-Cohen Meir
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2019
• EAN: 9780190936242
• ISBN: 978-0-19-093624-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy of Mind, LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political science and theory, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Legal ethics and professional conduct