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Introduction: Self-esteem and social esteem: Normative issues

Introduction: Self-esteem and social esteem: Normative issues Esteem (also called “social esteem”) plays a fundamental role in the motivation of human action and, in moral contexts, in individuals’ readiness to comply with the norms of the community. With much simplification, compliance is viewed positively, while non-compliance is viewed negatively, and the wish to be regarded positively motivates compliance, regardless of any compulsion. The topic of esteem-motivated compliance, prominent in early modern moral and political thought, has been revived in the past two decades in a philosophical debate initiated by Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit. They use the notion of “moral economy” to analyze the functioning of esteem, a good that cannot in a literal sense be exchanged for other goods, but one that is often a reward for what a person does and that is often an object of competition.Self-esteem (or its social bases) has also been regarded as a primary good in recent political philosophy, under the influence of John Rawls’s thought that (the social bases of) self-respect (for which, in this context, the more widely used term is “self-esteem”) is “perhaps the most important” kind of primary good, alongside rights, liberties, and material goods, and thus is an object of distributive concern. Regardless of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Affairs de Gruyter

Introduction: Self-esteem and social esteem: Normative issues

Human Affairs , Volume 30 (3): 5 – Jul 1, 2020

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de Gruyter
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© 2020 Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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1337-401X
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1337-401X
DOI
10.1515/humaff-2020-0026
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Abstract

Esteem (also called “social esteem”) plays a fundamental role in the motivation of human action and, in moral contexts, in individuals’ readiness to comply with the norms of the community. With much simplification, compliance is viewed positively, while non-compliance is viewed negatively, and the wish to be regarded positively motivates compliance, regardless of any compulsion. The topic of esteem-motivated compliance, prominent in early modern moral and political thought, has been revived in the past two decades in a philosophical debate initiated by Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit. They use the notion of “moral economy” to analyze the functioning of esteem, a good that cannot in a literal sense be exchanged for other goods, but one that is often a reward for what a person does and that is often an object of competition.Self-esteem (or its social bases) has also been regarded as a primary good in recent political philosophy, under the influence of John Rawls’s thought that (the social bases of) self-respect (for which, in this context, the more widely used term is “self-esteem”) is “perhaps the most important” kind of primary good, alongside rights, liberties, and material goods, and thus is an object of distributive concern. Regardless of

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Human Affairsde Gruyter

Published: Jul 1, 2020

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