Personal responsibility : why it matters / Alexander Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Alexander, 1974 December 27- author.

Series:

Think now.

Think now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, [2009]

Summary:

Personal responsibility is now very much on the political agenda. But what is personal responsibility? Why do we care about it? And what, if anything, should governments do to promote it?. This book explores the idea that individuals bear a special responsibility for the success or failure of their own lives looking at philosophical theories, political ideologies and public opinion on the subject. Alexander Brown lends support to a recent move in political philosophy to deal with real world problems and shows how philosophy can contribute to public democratic debate on pressing issues of perso

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: What is Personal Responsibility?; Chapter 3: What Do Philosophers Think? Part I; Chapter 4: What Do Philosophers Think? Part II; Chapter 5: What Do Politicians Think?; Chapter 6: What Do Ordinary People Think?; Chapter 7: Four Contemporary Issues in Focus; Chapter 8: So How Do We Decide?; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4411-5490-6

1-282-87379-2

9786612873799

1-4411-2891-3

OCLC:

676697179