Agency and responsibility : a common-sense moral psychology / Jeanette Kennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennett, Jeanette.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Will.

Self-control.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Distinctions between recklessness, weakness of will, and compulsion have been the targets of much philosophical attack. Beginning with the problem of weakness of will, this volume builds an admirably comprehensive and integrated account of moral agency that highly regards the capacity for self-control. It addresses with clarity a range of important topics-such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, and the varieties of recklessness-making this work especially important to those interested in philosophy, psychology, law, and moral and legal responsibility in general.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Monash University, early 1990s.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-225) and index.

ISBN:

0198236581

OCLC:

44727771