Volume 9, Number 3
December 2015
DISCUSSION

The Relevance of Human Nature

Volume 9, Number 3, December 2015, Pages 1–9
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v9i3.178
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Abstract

The so-called “Human Nature Constraint” holds that if an agent is unable, due to features of human nature, to bring herself to act in a certain way, then this suffices to block or negate the claim that the agent is required to act in that way. David Estlund has recently mounted a forceful objection to the Human Nature Constraint. I argue that Estlund’s objection fails—but instructively, in a way that gives Estlund resources for a different way of resisting attempts to negate normative claims by deploying the Human Nature Constraint.
Copyright © 2015 Nicholas Southwood
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