Responsibility Matters by French, Peter A.;

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Publisher MP–KAN Uni Press of Kansas
Date of Publication 31 December 1992
Number of Volumes Hardback

ISBN 9780700605569
Binding Hardback
No. of pages248 pages
Size 236x160x22 mm
Weight 601 g
Language English

Short description:

Investigates a variety of matters relating to responsibility - from theoretical aspects and ideas about the concept of responsibility to specific areas of application and general issues in moral theory; uses examples from literature (Dickens on space and time), films and current events.

Long description:

"Most of us spend a fair amount of time trying to avoid responsibility. That's not too astounding. What is surprising, says Peter French, is that we tend to dodge the good variety as well as the bad. """"The problem for most of us, excepting moral masochists, is that responsibility does get doled out"""", he writes. """"The strategy is either not to be in the receiving line or to find a way to get as little dumped on one's plate as possible, to trade off to others as much as one can. Consequently, the responsibility barter game is probably the most common experience ordinary people have with morality"""". In """"Responsibility Matters"""" French investigates a variety of matters relating to responsibility - from theoretical aspects and elements of the concept of responsibility to specific areas of application and general issues in moral theory. Unlike Kant and others who see responsibility as a necessary presupposition of practical life, he believes it is a set of practices that we use to describe and understand individual and social behaviour. Using examples from literature, film, and current events as well as traditional philosophical literature, he raises questions about responsibility in political, environmental, legal, medical, corporate, and military justice matters. He also covers other issues, including fate, innocence, power, control, and individual and group responsibility."

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