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Review of Duty to Self: Moral, Political, and Legal Self-Relation by Paul Schofield

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  1. Paul Schofield, Duty to Self: Moral, Political, & Legal Self-Regulation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

  2. Stephen Darwall, The Second-Person Standpoint (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 5.

  3. Alison Hills, “Duties and Duties to the Self.” American Philosophical Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2003): 131-142. A similar view–though that focuses more on dignity than well-being–can be found in David Velleman, “A Right to Self-Termination?” Ethics 109, no. 3 (1999): 606-628, which Schofield does discuss, as well as in Jean Hampton, “Selflessness and the Loss of Self.” Social Philosophy and Policy 10, no. 1 (1993): 135-165, which Schofield does not discuss.

  4. Christine Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

  5. In addition to the Korsgaardian account of synchronic duties to self, Schofield offers a broadly Humean account as well (118–124).

  6. Sarah Conly, Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Jason Hanna, In our Best Interest: A Defense of Paternalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

  7. And, once again, Hills and Hampton.

  8. Velleman, “A Right to Self-Termination?”, 611.

  9. Ibid., 611–612.

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Thanks to Sam Asarnow, Michael Fuerstein, Jason Marsh, Allison Murphy, Micah Lott and Jennifer Lockhart for excellent discussions about the book and this review. Thanks as well to Paul Schofield for feedback on an earlier draft.

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Groll, D. Review of Duty to Self: Moral, Political, and Legal Self-Relation by Paul Schofield. Criminal Law, Philosophy 16, 669–676 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09632-w

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