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  title info:
    title: Communities of respect
    sub title: grounding responsibility, authority, and dignity
  name:
    name part: Helm, Bennett W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 'Communities of respect' are communities of people sharing common practices or a (partial) way of life. They include families, clubs, religious groups and political parties. This book develops a detailed account of such communities in terms of the rational structure of their members' reactive attitudes, emotions like resentment, gratitude, guilt, approbation and indignation, whereby people hold each other responsible to certain norms. Helm argues that these communities are fundamental in three interrelated ways to understanding what it is to be a person. First, it is only by being a member of a community of respect that one can be a responsible agent having dignity. Such an agent therefore has certain rights as well as the authority to demand that fellow members recognize her dignity and follow the norms of the community, compliance with which norms they likewise have the authority to demand from her. Second, by prescribing or proscribing both actions and values, communities of respect can shape the identities of their members in ways that others have the authority to enforce, thereby revealing an important interpersonal dimension of the identities of persons. Finally, all of this is grounded in a distinctively interpersonal form of practical rationality in virtue of which we jointly have reasons to recognize the dignity and authority of fellow members and so to comply with their authoritative demands, as well as to respect (and so comply with) the norms of the community. Hence we persons are essentially social creatures.
  note: Bennett W. Helm.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-253) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Self (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: BJ1012 .H47 2017
  classification: 170
  identifier: 9780198801863
  identifier: 0198801866
  identifier: 2017936445
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170227
    record change date: 20211008144607.0
    record identifier: in00003907561