• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• I. Honor, Respect, and Accountability


• 1: Respect as Honor and as Accountability


• 2: Smith's Ambivalence About Honor


• 3: Justice and Retaliation


• 4: Ressentiment and Second-Personal Resentment


• II. Relating to Others


• 5: Responsibility Within Relations


• 6: Being With


• 7: Demystifying Promises


• III. History


• 8: Grotius at the Creation of Modern Moral Philosophy


• 9: Pufendorf on Morality, Sociability, and Moral Powers


• 10: Fichte and the Second-Person Standpoint


• 11: Kant on Respect, Dignity, and the Duty of Respect


• Works Cited


• Index

Stephen Darwall is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He has written widely on the history and foundations of ethics. His most important books include: Impartial Reason (1983), The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740, Philosophical Ethics (1998), Welfare and Rational Care (2002), and The Second-Person Standpoint (2006). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, with David Velleman, founding co-editor of Philosophers' Imprint.

Stephen Darwall expands upon his argument for a second-personal framework for morality, in which morality entails mutual accountability and the authority to address demands. He explores the role of the framework in relation to cultural ideas of respect and honor; the development of "modern" moral philosophy; and interpersonal relations.