Is the Reasonable Person a Person of Virtue?

Mangini, Michele

doi:10.1007/s11158-019-09432-5

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“…There are several competing interpretations of the RPS, but I contend that the one that remains closer to the richness and complexity of its meanings is the one that hinges on phronesis and the Aristotelian EV. In the common law, the conceptual space of reasonableness seems shaped more explicitly than in the civil law on an ideal model of person and living well according to the virtues (Mangini 2020).…”

Section: The Grounds Of Reasonableness: Aristotelian Phronesismentioning

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In search of reasonableness: between legal and political philosophy

Mangini

2022

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Reasonableness is a complex notion recently developed by legal and political theorists. John Rawls’s famous proposal of ‘reasonableness as reciprocity’ requires careful testing in the light of several criteria arising from legal doctrine and adjudication. I enquire into this variety of concepts in search of a common thread that makes sense of the use of the same concept in diverse contexts. I assume the normative thrust of reasonableness as an institutional and an individual virtue the basic core of which derives from Aristotelian phronesis. However, this double aspect of reasonableness betrays its major complexity that I try to shape through the help of two categories: subjective agency and objective context. The upshot of my enquiry will be that of showing that we can use another model, alternative to Rawls’s and better able to make sense of the variety of legal and ethical uses: Von Wright’s reasonableness as ‘the right way of living’.

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Section: The Grounds Of Reasonableness: Aristotelian Phronesismentioning

confidence: 99%