Joey’s Reviews > FINITE AND INFINITE GOODS: A Framework for Ethics > Status Update

Adams views of obligations as fundamentally social in nature makes a lot of sense to me, even obvious now, but that surprised me because I use to be very Kantian in viewing them as derivable from rationality itself, ie moral obligation is ‘self-imposed’ by the recognition of ourselves as rational beings. Autonomy after all comes from “auto”(self) and “nomos”(law). But Adams is really changing my mind!

very interesting to see a parallel version of non-reductive naturalism taken from philosophy of mind discussed in a metaethical context :)