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Book 3 · Real Morality

Taking Responsibility

From Moral Judgment to Consequential Action

Taking Responsibility cover

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From moral judgment to consequential action: accepting the burden, judging under uncertainty, justifying authority, and carrying the consequences.

This is the planned outline. Chapter texts will be added as they are ready.

Contents

Prologue

  1. Prologue · ForthcomingThe Myth of Clean Hands

Part I: Accepting the Burden (From Recognition to Ownership)

  1. Chapter 1 · ForthcomingThe End of Spectatorship
  2. Chapter 2 · ForthcomingWhat Falls to Me? (The Allocation of Obligation)
  3. Chapter 3 · ForthcomingThe Duty to Be Competent (And Minds Fit for the Task)

Part II: Judgment Under Uncertainty (Building a Decision That Bears Weight)

  1. Chapter 4 · ForthcomingSeeing Through the Story (Evidentiary Discipline)
  2. Chapter 5 · ForthcomingEveryone Who Has a Stake (Constituting the Moral Public)
  3. Chapter 6 · ForthcomingConstructing the Alternatives (Against False Binaries)
  4. Chapter 7 · ForthcomingEnough to Act (The Stopping Rule for Finite Minds)

Part III: The Justification of Authority (Jurisdiction, Consent, and Refusal)

  1. Chapter 8 · ForthcomingWho Should Decide? (The Two-Level Justification)
  2. Chapter 10 · ForthcomingWhen Deference Becomes Abdication (Against the Process-Hider)
  3. Chapter 11 · ForthcomingThe Limits of Intervention (Against the Usurper)

Part IV: Carrying the Consequences (Execution, Remainder, and Repair)

  1. Chapter 12 · ForthcomingDirty Hands, Clean Routes, and Shared Chains (Means and Delegation)
  2. Chapter 13 · ForthcomingThe People Who Lose (Moral Remainders and Ongoing Follow-Through)
  3. Chapter 14 · ForthcomingError, Repair, and Relinquishment

Epilogue

  1. Epilogue · ForthcomingMaking Responsibility Ordinary

The Real Morality sequence

  1. Recovering Hare
  2. Moral Minds
  3. Taking Responsibility
  4. The Social Infrastructure of Morality
  5. The Moral Ceiling