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The Relevance of Human Nature

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2015

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Southwood, Nicholas

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University of Southern California

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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 (2011) 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.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/153214

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

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.26556/jesp.v9i3.178

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