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Book Review: Political Theory: The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott

These bare wrongings are harms despite the fact that Rationalism can make no sense of them being harmful without someone’s interest being affected by them. In Owens’ view, much of the social function of activities like promising and the value of friendship is determined by our need to shape the world we live in to fit our (non-Rationalistic) phenomenology of intentional agency. Crucial concepts in moral psychology and moral agency like ‘consent’, ‘forgiveness’ and ‘obligation’ are examined in varying degrees of detail – although, at times, some views are more skeletal than others. The discussion of sexual consent and rape in Chapter 7, for example, lays out only the barest of theories about the nature of what ‘consent’ to sex might really be. This is a mere quibble, however. This is an original and challenging attempt to ground the nature of normativity, placed in the welcome contexts of (as Scanlon would say) what we owe to each other.