Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
DOI
10.22329/il.v34i1.3882
Publication Title
Informal Logic
Volume
34
Issue
1
Pages
124-151
Abstract
The paper reports on a Socratic exercise that introduces participants to the norm of rational entitlement, as distinct from political entitlement, and the attendant norm of rational responsibility. The exercise demonstrates that, because participants are not willing to exchange their own opinion at random for another differing opinion to which the owner is, by the participants' own admission, entitled, they treat their entitlement to their own opinion differently, giving it a special status. This gives rise to rational obligations such as the obligation to provide reasons, and a willingness to risk those opinions to the force of the better reason.
Original Publication Citation
Godden, D. (2014). Teaching rational entitlement and responsibility: A Socratic exercise. Informal Logic, 34(1), 124-151. doi:10.22329/il.v34i1.3882
ORCID
0000-0002-4870-6331 (Godden)
Repository Citation
Godden, David, "Teaching Rational Entitlement and Responsibility: A Socratic Exercise" (2014). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 44.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/philosophy_fac_pubs/44