Aristotle on moral responsibility : character and cause / Susan Sauve Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Susan Sauvé, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics--English.

Aristotle.

Ethics, Ancient.

Responsibility.

Character.

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 210 pages)

Other Title:

Character and cause

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This text presents a striking interpretation of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. The author argues that they constitute a distinctive theory of moral responsibility, and provides powerful responses to notorious puzzles in the account.

Contents:

Introduction: Moral responsibility and Aristotle's concerns

1. Moral responsibility and moral character

2. Voluntariness, praiseworthiness, and character

3. The dialectical inquiry into voluntariness

4. Force, compulsion, and the internal origin of action

5. Responsibility for character: its scope and significance

6. Moral agency and the origination of action

App. I. Varieties of knowledge and ignorance

App. II. "Up to us" and the internal origin.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-173207-9

0-19-969742-6