Responsibility / edited by Barbara Darling-Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darling-Smith, Barbara, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books ; [Boston] : Published in cooperation with Institute for Philosophy and Religion, Boston University, [2007]

Summary:

In this book, philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Dr. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle. With references to Homer's Iliad and Buddhist teachings, these essays demonstrate that while selfhood is an illusion, there is still a conventional self that must be held responsible. This book finds the underlying distinctions between ultimate and conventional understandings of selfhood, which lead to variations on the role of responsibility in the community and government. With essays from CEOs to historical theologians, Responsibility offers a variety of perspectives that will captivate the interest of philosophers and scholars of ethics and religion.

Contents:

I Responsibility and Selfhood

1 Responsible Fictions / David Roochnik 15

2 Responsibility without a Self / Malcolm David Eckel 27

3 "The Way Is Made in the Walking": Responsibility as Relational Virtuosity / Roger T. Ames 41

4 "Where Art Thou?" Biblical Perspectives on Responsibility / Michael Zank 63

II Responsible Roles Toward Other Human Beings

5 Moral Responsibility in a Democratic Society / Bhikhu Parekh 79

6 Am I My Brother's Keeper? An Aristotelian Take on Responsibility for Others / Anna Lannstrom 97

7 Tasteless Historical Stories: A Historical Theologian's Responsibility to Past and Present / Margaret R. Miles 113

8 Balancing Medicine's Moral Ledger: Realigning Trust and Responsibility / Alfred I. Tauber 129

9 Responsibilities of Corporations: Managing Profitably and Morally / Tom Chappell 149

III Responsibility Toward Nonhuman Beings and the Earth

10 Toward an Art of Dwelling / Andrea Nightingale 161

11 Ecological and Social Responsibility: The Making of the Earth Charter / Steven C. Rockefeller 179

Appendix The Earth Charter 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739120279

0739120271

9780739120286

073912028X

OCLC:

77116806