Samuel Scheffler Agent Centered Prerogative
Samuel Scheffler is a moral and political philosopher who is an University professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Law School at New York University. He is also a son of a Harvard Philosopher named Israel Scheffler. He was also a student of a distinguished philosopher Thomas Nagel.
Scheffler’s Agent-centered prerogative was used in the Agent – centered Deontological Theories. Agenr-centered Deontological says that to taxonomize deontological theories, the most traditional way is to divide them between agent-centered and victim -centered or patient -centered theories. The idea of an agent-centered prerogative is that a moral person can have a prerogative not to do the acts that produce the greatest or best consequences. This idea was first introduced to moderate the demands of …show more content…
It has implications on global justice especially on the issue about fighting against world poverty. There are called agent – relative reason, agent-relative obligation and agent -related permission. All these three are connected according to the agent-centered theories. It is said that we have both permission and obligations that give us agent-relative reasons for actions. An agent-relative reason is called such because it is a reason relative to the agent whose reason it is. It need not constitute a reason for anyone else. An agent-relative obligation is an obligation for a particular agent to take or refrain from taking some action. For the reason that it is called agent-relative obligation, the obligation does not necessarily give anyone else a reason to support that action. An agent-relative permission is a permission from some agent to do some act even though others may not be permitted to aid
Scheffler’s Agent-centered prerogative was used in the Agent – centered Deontological Theories. Agenr-centered Deontological says that to taxonomize deontological theories, the most traditional way is to divide them between agent-centered and victim -centered or patient -centered theories. The idea of an agent-centered prerogative is that a moral person can have a prerogative not to do the acts that produce the greatest or best consequences. This idea was first introduced to moderate the demands of …show more content…
It has implications on global justice especially on the issue about fighting against world poverty. There are called agent – relative reason, agent-relative obligation and agent -related permission. All these three are connected according to the agent-centered theories. It is said that we have both permission and obligations that give us agent-relative reasons for actions. An agent-relative reason is called such because it is a reason relative to the agent whose reason it is. It need not constitute a reason for anyone else. An agent-relative obligation is an obligation for a particular agent to take or refrain from taking some action. For the reason that it is called agent-relative obligation, the obligation does not necessarily give anyone else a reason to support that action. An agent-relative permission is a permission from some agent to do some act even though others may not be permitted to aid