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- Title
SUBJECTIVITY, JUDGMENT, AND THE BASING RELATIONSHIP.
- Authors
DAVIS, JOHN K.
- Abstract
Moral and legal judgments sometimes depend on personal traits in this sense: the subject offers good reasons for her judgment, but if she had a different social or ideological background, her judgment would be different. If you would judge the constitutionality of restrictions on abortion differently if you were not a secular liberal, is your judgment really based on the arguments you find convincing, or do you find them so only because you are a secular liberal? I argue that a judgment can be based on the considerations the subject claims as justification even when it depends on personal traits.
- Subjects
LEGAL judgments; SUBJECTIVITY; ABORTION &; ethics; PERSONALITY; JUSTIFICATION (Ethics); SECULAR humanism; LIBERALISM (Religion); ETHICS
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2009, Vol 90, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01327.x