The Third Kind of Normativity — the Requirement of Reason-Responsiveness

Abstract

In the article I demonstrate that the distinction between the genuine normativity and the normativity of the requirements of rationality is not exhaustive. It omits an important class of requirements, namely reason-responsiveness. On the one hand, this kind of requirements does not resemble the normative requirements in the genuine sense; on the other, there are important differences between rationality as coherence and the requirements of reason-responsiveness. I conclude that reason-responsiveness should be treated as a third kind of normative requirements.