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Moral expectation is a concept with which all of us are well acquainted. Already as children we learn that certain courses of action are expected of us. We are expected to perform certain actions, and we are expected to refrain from other actions. Furthermore, we learn that something is morally wrong with the failure to do what we are morally expected to do. A central theme of this book is that moral expectation should not be confused with moral obligation. While we are morally expected to do everything we are obligated to do, a person can be morally expected to do some things that he or she is not morally obligated to do. Although moral expectation is a familiar notion, it has not been the object of investigation in its own right. In the early chapters Mellema attempts to provide a philosophical account of this familiar notion, distinguish it from other types of expectations, and show how it is possible to form false moral expectations. Subsequent chapters explore the role of moral expectation in agreements between people, analyze ways that people avoid moral expectation, illustrate how groups can have moral expectations, and view moral expectation in the context of our relationship with divine beings. The final chapter provides insight into how moral expectation operates in people's professional lives. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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For example, the book spends a lot of time arguing that one can be morally blameworthy for not fulfilling moral expectations. Yet it is taken for granted that we know the implications of not fulfilling moral obligations. The closest the book came to defining the difference was a line in the foreword (by a different author) which associated unfulfilled expectations with blameworthiness and unfulfilled obligations with guilt.
That said, the book did discuss a number of interesting ideas. The most interesting, to me, was the idea of the symbolic dimension of both expectations and obligations. This is the idea that an expectation can take on symbolic meaning that goes beyond the degree of blameworthiness associated with the expectation itself. This comes from how people perceive both the act and the actor. For example, failing to fulfill an expectation to hold a door for someone with full arms could have a symbolic dimension that causes that person to be perceived as rude.
Overall, I don't regret reading it; it had some good ideas. Still, it was a bit of a slog. ( )