1: Towards a Social Conception of Persons
2: Rationality, the Evaluative Attitudes, and Import
3: Respect and the Reactive Attitudes
4: Trust: A Forward-Looking Reactive Attitude
5: Responsibility, Authority, and the Bindingness of Norms
6: Roles, Relationships, and Blame
7: Communal Values and Character-Oriented Reactive Attitudes
8: Persons in the First Person Plural
Bennett Helm is the Elijah E. Kresge Professor of Philosophy at
Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania. His work focuses on
understanding what it is to be a person and, in particular, the
role the emotions and various forms of caring play in making us
persons be moral creatures. He has received fellowships and grants
from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment
for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Templeton
Foundation,
and Princeton's Center for Human Values. He is the author of
Emotional Reason: Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value
(Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Love, Friendship, and the
Self: Intimacy,
Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons (Oxford University
Press, 2010).
...valuable insight...
*Zoe Walker, Journal of Moral Philosophy*
I found Communities of Respect to be a very rewarding read. Taken
as an account of communities or respect and communal
responsibility, Helm's position and arguments are both novel and
interesting. I recommend it to philosophers interested in communal
and moral responsibility, moral psychology, social ontology, or the
philosophy of emotions.
*Olle Blomberg, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice*
Philosophers interested in topics as wide-ranging as respect, the
reactive attitudes, the sentimentalist account of emotions,
practical rationality, shared agency and metaethics will find rich
arguments with which to engage in this book. Although the idea that
respect is fundamentally interpersonal (and grounded in
interpersonal relationships) has a long history, Helm's account of
the sense in which it is interpersonal, the way it is grounded (and
thereby justified) and the subsequent grounding (but not viciously
circular) role it plays is ambitious, innovative and
challenging.
*Caroline T. Arruda, Notre Dame Philosophical Review*
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