Monika Betzler: Relationships in Transition: Normative Challenges
Philosophy | Academic Year 2020/2021
Philosophy | Academic Year 2020/2021
Close relationships are vitally important to agents like us. When they go well, they have value for their own sake and give meaning to our lives. Yet, close relationships are also a potential source of conflict and a site of competing normative expectations. To date, moral philosophers have mostly focused on three types of relationships: friendships; romantic partnerships; and family relationships (in particular that between parents and children).