Analysis of the Resolution
Who is the Actor
There are many debate arguments that depend on features of the actor in the resolution. For example, there is the MacIntyre argument expanded upon by Boyle and Lavin
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that the goodness of an agent’s actions ought to be determined relative to what kind of thing that agent is. What makes a roller coaster good is different from what makes a pencil good. So, the argument goes, we should determine an agent’s obligations based on their function. The argument on this topic will be along the lines of we shouldn’t determine whether compulsory voting is good in the abstract, we should just see if it is consistent with the function of a democracy The function
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MacIntyre, Alasdair Ci After Virtue A Study in Moral Theory
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Notre Dame, 1984.
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Boyle, Matthew and Douglas Lavin. 2010. Goodness and desire. In Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good, ed. Sergio Tenenbaum. New York Oxford University Press.
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