The Embodiment Thesis

In this essay I articulate and defend a thesis about the nature of morality called “the embodiment thesis”. The embodiment thesis states that moral values underdetermine the obligations and entitlements of individual persons, and that actual social institutions must embody morality by specifying the...

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Main Author: Garthoff, Jon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2004
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2004, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-29
Further subjects:B John Rawls
B Fair play
B Moral relativism
B basic structure of society
B moral values
B Embodiment
B Social institutions
B coordination problem
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Summary:In this essay I articulate and defend a thesis about the nature of morality called “the embodiment thesis”. The embodiment thesis states that moral values underdetermine the obligations and entitlements of individual persons, and that actual social institutions must embody morality by specifying these moral relations. I begin by presenting two thought experiments that elucidate and motivate the embodiment thesis. I then proceed by distinguishing the embodiment thesis from a Rawlsian doctrine about the nature of justice, from the doctrine of moral relativism, and from solutions to the coordination problem of rational choice theory.
ISSN:1572-8447
Contains:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/B:ETTA.0000019983.64526.15