PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: False Consciousness, Anarchism In Russia, Noble Eightfold Path
29 Nov 2017
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Phl module 9 between consenting adults and the moral life. If we show indifference to others, we do not treat them as persons; if our interactions are personal in tone, whether sympathetic or hostile, we treat them as persons. A deeper and historically more important understanding of the idea of treating others as persons sees their consent to actions which affect them as morally significant. On this view it is morally objectionable to treat others in ways to which they do not consent. In legal and institutional contexts the criteria are supposedly clearest. Here formal procedures supposedly show who consents to which actions by which others. But here too presumptions of consent are defeasible. Even the clearest formulas of consent, such as signatures and formal oaths, may not indicate consent when there is ignorance, duress, misrepresentation, pressure, or the like. A second range of difficulties arises when the consent given does not match the activities it supposedly legitimates.
