Romantic partnerships are typically among the most important goods in our lives. But love sometime ends, and so too do relationships. Divorcing partners are particularly vulnerable to being wronged and harmed. The aim of this paper is to develop an ethics of divorce, by establishing that divorce is a condition for the possibility of the distinct value of romantic partnerships. Different sets of rights are specified here: the divorcee's right to explanation, the right to participation and the right to transitional goods; and the divorcer's right to relational freedom. Violations of these rights indicate the distinct wrongs and harms of divorce. The paper then explains the corresponding duties in divorce that might avoid these wrongs and mitigate these harms, and highlights the distinct status of these duties: while they continue to be special, they are residual duties grounded in the fact that the partners once committed to their partnership.

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结束特殊关系：迈向离婚的道德规范


浪漫的伙伴关系通常是我们生活中最重要的商品之一。但爱情总有会结束，人际关系也会结束。离婚伴侣特别容易受到冤枉和伤害。本文的目的是通过确定离婚是浪漫伴侣关系独特价值可能性的条件，来发展离婚伦理学。这里规定了不同的权利：离婚者的解释权、参与权和过渡性物品的权利;以及离婚者享有关系自由的权利。侵犯这些权利表明离婚的独特错误和危害。然后，本文解释了离婚中可能避免这些错误并减轻这些伤害的相应义务，并强调了这些义务的不同地位：虽然它们仍然是特殊的，但它们是基于合伙人曾经承诺他们的伙伴关系这一事实的剩余义务。