Consent,Context, and Obligations: A Response to Ciomaga |
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| Authors: | Steven Weimer |
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| Institution: | 1. sweimer@astate.edu |
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| Abstract: | In his ‘Rules and Obligations,’ Bogdan Ciomaga defends a pluralist account of moral obligations to follow sport rules by arguing that no single explanation of such obligations will plausibly apply in multiple contexts. I dispute this claim by showing that consent generates rule-following obligations in a very wide variety of the contexts in which sports are played, including each of those Ciomaga cites in support of his pluralist account. The contractualist or consent-based theory of rule normativity therefore offers a substantially unifying – though not a unitary, for reasons I go on to explain – source of moral obligations to follow sport rules. |
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| Keywords: | Ciomaga consent contractualism obligations |
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