Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2004
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616402.008
Abstract
This preliminary reflection about practical conflicts confronting single agents does little to solve the problems conflicts create. Rather, it attempts to explain what conflicts are and what questions they raise. I suggest that we have two distinct notions of single-agent conflicts reflecting two distinct theoretical questions. The first concerns the possibility of there being a right action in conflict situations. It is the question of whether and, if so, how reasons deriving from different concerns or affecting different people can be of comparable strengths. The second concerns a sense that there is something unfortunate about conflicts and that when facing conflicting options just taking the best or the right one is not sufficient. I offer (in outline) an answer to the second question but nothing about the first.
Disciplines
Law | Law and Philosophy | Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Joseph Raz,
Personal Practical Conflicts,
Practical Conflicts: New Philosophical Essays, Peter Baumann & Monika Betzler (Eds.), Cambridge University Press
(2004).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4352
Comments
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