A Dilemma for Protected Reasons |
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Authors: | Christopher Essert |
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Institution: | 1. Queen??s University Faculty of Law, MacDonald Hall, 128 Union St, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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Abstract: | Joseph Raz’s account of norms provides that a norm requiring an agent to φ is a reason to φ protected by an exclusionary reason
not to act on some other reasons. I present a dilemma concerning the determination of the contents of this set of excluded
reasons. The question is whether or not the set includes reasons that count in favour of φing. If the answer is yes, the account
is committed to a picture of norms that seems inconsistent with the phenomenology, in that it rules out acting on the very
reasons on which the norm is based. If the answer is no, the account licenses a problematic form of double counting of reasons.
I conclude that Raz’s protected reasons account of norms must be rejected, and tentatively suggest a solution to the problem
posed by the dilemma. |
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