Morality as Equal Accountability: Comments on Stephen Darwall’s The Second‐Person Standpoint

Abstract

My remarks on The Second-Person Standpoint are in three parts. I begin with an overview of the argument and with some preliminary questions and observations. In the second part, I develop some doubts about Stephen Darwall’s argument from second-personal competence to second-personal authority. Finally, I take up some questions about the relation between the right and the good in Darwall’s philosophy.