Review of For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics

Abstract

[ e-13 ] 12. Unfortunately, Killmister doesn’t seem aware of Darwall’s revision of his own view, which distinguishes two kinds of recognition respect: honor respect and moral respect. Given that Darwall ties the former to the idea of socially constructed “human kinds,” which Killmister considers later in her discussion of status dignity, her take on this revision would have been relevant. Indeed, because Darwall further argues that social kinds are tied up with hierarchical interpersonal attitudes, this revision complicates any attempt, like Killmister’s, to make human dignity a species of status dignity. See e.g. Stephen Darwall, “Respect As Honor and As Accountability,” In Honor, History, & Relationship: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics II (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).