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Ammonium Sulphide
Anglo-American Moral Philosophers
Author_Christopher Cowley
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Circumstantial Luck
collective agency
complicity in wrongdoing
Constitutive Luck
Culpable Mistakes
Eliminable Tension
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ethical responsibility
game
Gauguin
Genuine Forgiveness
Huck's Case
Huck’s Case
Le Petit Prince
luck
Moral Education Theory
Moral Incapacity
Moral Luck
normative ethics
Offender's Apology
Offender’s Apology
Pre-nuptial Contracts
Prima Facie Wrong
Prospective Responsibility
punishment theory
Raimond Gaita
Resultant Luck
retributive justice
Retrospective Responsibility
scepticism about moral accountability
Subjective Objective Dichotomy
Victim's Forgiveness
Vital Lie
Wrongful Life Suit
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781844655656
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How and to what degree are we responsible for our characters, our lives, our misfortunes, our relationships and our children? This question is at the heart of "Moral Responsibility". The book explores accusations and denials of moral responsibility for particular acts, responsibility for character, and the role of luck and fate in ethics. Moral responsibility as the grounds for a retributivist theory of punishment is examined, alongside discussions of forgiveness, parental responsibility, and responsibility before God. The book also discusses collective responsibility, bringing in notions of complicity and membership, and drawing on the seminal contemporary discussion of collective agency and responsibility: the Nuremberg trials.
Christopher Cowley is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Dublin. He is author of 'Medical Ethics: Ordinary Concepts, Ordinary Lives' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
