Thanks for another excellent post. I continue to get a lot out of your writing, so please keep it coming!
I’ve always found the idea of ‘bindingness’ as the most intuitive term I can grasp towards to get at what it’s like to be under the purview of a normative ought. You can choose to ignore the ought, or fail to realise that it’s there, but regardless it’ll be there binding you until you comply, and whilst you don’t comply your hypothetical normative life score is jettisoning points and you’re slipping down the league table. (Note I’m coming from a normative realist perspective)
Ultimately I think my view is that what one ought to do is just that which there is all-things-considered most reason to do, and I’ve always had the intuition that what it means to have a reason to do something is primitive and not amenable to deeper analysis. Interested in whether you think that having a normative reason is a primitive concept / any useful reading on the topic you might know on the topic?
Thanks for another excellent post. I continue to get a lot out of your writing, so please keep it coming!
I’ve always found the idea of ‘bindingness’ as the most intuitive term I can grasp towards to get at what it’s like to be under the purview of a normative ought. You can choose to ignore the ought, or fail to realise that it’s there, but regardless it’ll be there binding you until you comply, and whilst you don’t comply your hypothetical normative life score is jettisoning points and you’re slipping down the league table. (Note I’m coming from a normative realist perspective)
Ultimately I think my view is that what one ought to do is just that which there is all-things-considered most reason to do, and I’ve always had the intuition that what it means to have a reason to do something is primitive and not amenable to deeper analysis. Interested in whether you think that having a normative reason is a primitive concept / any useful reading on the topic you might know on the topic?