Appropriate Normative Powers. (1st July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tadros, Victor
• Is Part Of: Supplement to the proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Volume 94(2020)
• Page Start: 301
• Page End: 326
• Publication Date: 2020-07-01
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Congresses; Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1093/arisup/akaa009
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-7013

Abstract

Abstract: A normative power is a power to alter rights and duties directly. This paper explores what it means to alter rights and duties directly. In the light of that, it examines the kind of argument that might support the existence of normative powers. Both simple and complex instrumentalist accounts of such powers are rejected, as is an approach to normative powers that is based on the existence of normative interests. An alternative is sketched, where normative powers arise based on the appropriateness of a person responding to a decision by limiting their freedom.