Questions 5

Questions 5

by Victoria Lee Pagnotto Hammitt -
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1. I'm confused by Horton's response to the objection about immoral or unjust institutional obligations on 156-7. What does he mean by "It is one thing to show that a particular institution does not violate other fundamental moral principles or commitments, but quite another to have to show that the institution is justified by these other moral principles"? How does this respond to the objection?

2. Did Horton succeed in providing an account that allows us to "see the intelligibility and understand the appropriateness of the ways in which we think and feel about our membership of a polity" (155)? In particular I wonder if he provided any basis to evaluate the appropriateness of certain ways of thinking or feeling about membership in a polity, as opposed to others?