The Relational Right and the Good

My aim in this paper is to offer some constructive suggestions about the deontological conception of moral value, taking the relational account as my example of a deontological approach. I identify two different kinds of moral values that might be elucidated by the relational approach, which I shall call compliance values and status values. I discuss the role that these moralized values play within the relational theory, tracing the contributions they make to the larger interpretative case for understanding interpersonal morality in relational terms.