Böcker av Jeremy Aaron Evans

My dissertation defends a modern version of Role Ethics modeled on thefunctioning of human moral psychology, and proposes a novel method for identifying theinstitutional roles of a well-ordered collective. In particular, I defend the view that ourduties are determined by the social roles we incur in the communities we inhabit. Thecompanion project extends Role Ethics into the political domain. I argue that we canidentify the well-ordered collective in roughly the same way we identify the goodindividual, by discerning the dispositions in the relevant agent that are conducive to itswell-being. By scaling up, we shift attention from the moral dispositions of individualsto the moral dispositions of collectives - the institutions that determine the moralcharacter of a population. While philosophers have tended to focus on the formalinstitutions of the state, this research is largely concerned with the 'informal institutions'of a collective, the implicit social roles/practices constructed and enforced endogenously,such as those involved in structuring human friendships. What I call 'CollectiveEudaimonism' is a kind of virtue ethics writ large, a normative theory taskedwith identifying correlations between a set of informal institutions and theindicators of flourishing human collectives.