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SUMMARY:Royal Institute of Philosophy Stapledon Colloquium 2017-18: Dr Ryan Byerly (University of Sheffield) - "Others-Centerdness as a Moral Ideal"
DESCRIPTION:Dr Ryan Byerly (University of Sheffield) - "Others-Centerdness as a Moral Ideal"In this paper, I offer a definition of the character trait of others-centeredness, discuss the relationship of others-centeredness to other phenomena discussed in contemporary virtue theory and contemporary psychology, and identify resources for defending the value of others-centeredness from multiple normative perspectives. According to the proposed definition, others-centeredness is a tendency to treat those interests that would be impacted by one’s potential acts as providing greater reason for action given that they are others’ than given that they are one’s own. So understood, others-centeredness shares certain features in common with traits identified with humility, generosity, or love by contemporary virtue theorists, and it also resembles hypo-egoic, communal, and self-sacrificial constructs that have been the subject of psychological study. Yet, it is not identical to any of these phenomena. Moreover, a provisional case for its positive value can be made using resources available to adherents of consequentialist, deontological, and virtue ethical approaches to normative ethics. As such, it promises to be a fruitful object of interdisciplinary study.
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