ABSTRACT

I argue that the social dimension of alienation, as discussed by Williams and Railton, has been underappreciated. The lesson typically drawn from their exchange is that moral theory poses a threat to the internal integrity of the agent, but there is a parallel risk that moral theory will implicitly construe agents as constitutively alienated from one another. I argue that a satisfying account of agency will need to make room for what I call ‘genuine ethical contact’ with others, both as concrete objects in the world external to ourselves and as subjects who can recognize us reciprocally.

中文翻译：

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与自我分离的个体现实：道德理论中的异化与社会性

摘要

我认为，正如威廉姆斯和雷尔顿所讨论的那样，异化的社会维度一直没有得到充分重视。从他们的交流中通常得出的教训是，道德理论对代理人的内部完整性构成威胁，但存在一种平行的风险，即道德理论会将代理人隐含地解释为在本质上彼此疏远。我认为，对代理的令人满意的描述需要为我所说的与他人的“真正的道德接触”腾出空间，无论是作为我们外部世界中的具体对象，还是作为能够相互认识我们的主体。