Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions

New Essays in Moral Psychology

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Gebonden, 372 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 1988
ISBN13: 9780521327206
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This volume of original essays addresses a range of issues concerning the responsibility individuals have for their actions and for their characters. Among the central questions considered are the following: What scope is there for regarding a person as responsible for his or her character given genetic and environmental factors? Does an account of responsibility provide a legitimate basis for the retributive emotions? Are we ever justified in feeling guilty for occurences over which we have no control? Does responsibility for the consequences of our acts require that they were intended or simply expected? How have a number of influential previous philosophers, including Aristotle, Maimonides, and Spinoza, approached these questions?

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ISBN13:9780521327206
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:372

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Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction Ferdinand Schoeman; Part I. Responsibility and Character: 2. Identification and wholeheartedness Harry Frankfurt; 3. Sanity and the metaphysics of responsibility Susan Wolf; 4. Unfreedom and responsibility Patricia Greenspan; 5. Responsiveness and moral responsibility John Martin Fischer; 6. Determinism and freedom in Spinoza, Maimonides, and Aristotle: a retrospective study Lenn E. Goodman; 7. Emotions, responsibility, and character John Sabini and Maury Silver; Part II. Responsibility and Culpability: 8. The moral worth of retribution Michael S. Moore; 9. Nonmoral guilt Herbert Morris; 10. Provocation and culpability Andrew Von Hirsch and Nils Jareborg; 11. Responsibility and the limits of evil: variations on a Strawsonian theme Gary Watson; 12. Statistical norms and moral attributions Ferdinand Schoeman; 13. Guilt, punishment and, desert Richard Burgh; 14. Intention, foreseeability, and responsibility Gerald Dworkin; Index of names.

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