التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
African communitarian ethics: An externalist justification for altruism. |
| المؤلفون: |
Odeyemi, Idowu |
| المصدر: |
Philosophical Forum; Feb2024, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p109-127, 19p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ALTRUISM, COMMUNITARIANISM, EXTERNALISM (Philosophy of mind), JUSTIFICATION (Ethics), ETHICISTS |
| مستخلص: |
The most popular defense of altruism has come from ethicists, mostly Western ethicists, who argue that for an action to hold any justification as it pertains to altruistic commitments, such an altruistic action must stem from the agent's internal states such as beliefs, practical reasoning, desires, or deliberative attitudes. I refer to this as the internalist justification for altruism. On this internalist approach, the mere recognition of others—which I shall refer to as an externalist justification—albeit necessary for an agent who wants to perform an altruistic act, is insufficient in accounting for the agent's altruism. This paper offers an African model of communitarian ethics (ACE) under which the externalist justification for altruism is satisfied. I argue that at its core, ACE holds a normative conception of community and personhood that accounts for a sufficient externalist justification for altruism, which proponents of internal altruism have argued is insufficient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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