Mapping responsibility : explorations in mind, law, myth, and culture / Herbert Fingarette ; with a foreword by Robert C. Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fingarette, Herbert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

xii, 174 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, [2004]

Summary:

Written for philosophers as well as general readers interested in social and moral issues, Mapping Responsibility is a thoughtful exploration of the ambiguous terrain of moral responsibility. As a philosophical idea, responsibility poses vexing questions: What does it mean to be a responsible person - that is, one who is justly held accountable and possibly punishable for an action? In exploring this and other important questions, author Herbert Fingarette employs an interdisciplinary range of ideas. He uses the theoretical standpoints of moral philosophy, moral psychology, and psychoanalytic psychology and also taps into legal scholarship on criminal justice to discuss retribution, punishment, and the state.

Contents:

Accepting responsibility

Guilt and responsibility

Orestes' task

Retributive punishment

Alcoholism and legal responsibility

The concept of mental disorder

Does coercion negate responsibility?

Self-deception

The Hindu perspective : the Bhagavad Gita

The Confucian perspective : the self

Responsibility and indeterminism

Suffering

Out of the whirlwind : the Book of Job.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-166) and index.

ISBN:

081269564X

OCLC:

54929444