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September 10, 2025

Joint Commitment Contractualism

Key Points

The framework elucidates how joint commitment shapes moral obligations, enhancing relational understanding.
Normativity arises from commitments among moral agents, explaining the basis of relational ethics.
The paper develops a contractualist approach to clarify the philosophical foundations of relational morality.
It points to a new perspective on regulating moral relations through commitments that cannot be reasonably rejected.

Abstract

Abstract On the relational conception of morality, the question of what we ought, morally, to do is understood as a question of how we ought to regulate our moral relations with one another. Despite its attractions, the philosophical foundations of the relational view are notoriously hard to make precise. In this paper, I offer a novel contractualist account of the foundations of relational moral obligations, which I call joint commitment contractualism . On this view, the normativity of relational moral obligations is explained by reference to a distinctive kind of relationship in which moral agents have jointly committed themselves to the aim of justifying their behavior to each other on terms that others could not reasonably reject.

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