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Journal Article
Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy
2011
Overview
Estlund narrates that it is often supposed that a person is not required to do anything they cannot do. \"Ought\" implies \"can,\" as this is often put. Yet he states that this is not so. If there are facts of human nature of this general kind, consisting in limits to what humans will be able to muster the will to do, they are not, simply as facts, constraints on what can soundly be prescribed or morally required. The reason is that agents' abilities and inabilities to muster their will are subject to moral evaluation in their own right. Some such inabilities are morally objectionable, others are not. Here, he argues that human nature is a constraint on some tasks in political philosophy but not on others.
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Inc,Wiley Subscription Services, Inc,Wiley,Blackwell Publishing Ltd
