Permaculture as Richard Bauckham’s Living with Other Creatures: : A Prefigurative Symbol for Messianic Redemption in Nature

To have moral standing to blame is to have a right to blame. But what kind of right is it, and what follows from having or lacking standing? I will argue that moral standing to blame should be understood as a power according to Wesley Hohfeld’s classification of rights (1913). It is a normative powe...

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Main Author: Bierma, Troy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2025
In: De Ethica
Year: 2025, Volume: 8, Issue: 4, Pages: 57-74
Further subjects:B Mark 1:13
B anticipatory religious symbol
B David Holmgren
B Ecotheology
B Richard Bauckham
B Permaculture
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Summary:To have moral standing to blame is to have a right to blame. But what kind of right is it, and what follows from having or lacking standing? I will argue that moral standing to blame should be understood as a power according to Wesley Hohfeld’s classification of rights (1913). It is a normative power to call for an uptake of blame from someone who is liable to blame, i.e., someone who is blameworthy. The function of standing norms, I will argue, is to protect the freedom and interests of persons who are or could be blamed. I make three further claims in distinction to recent scholarship on standing: I argue that the concept of standing does not apply at all to private blame, only to expressed blame; I claim that standing cannot be understood as only a privilege-right; and I argue that there is not a conceptual asymmetry between standing to blame and standing to forgive.
ISSN:2001-8819
Contains:Enthalten in: De Ethica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3384/de-ethica.2001-8819.258456