The bounds of responsibility / edited by Tadeusz Lewandowski and Elisabeta Gabriela Ilie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewandowski, Tadeusz, 1951- editor.

Ilie, Elisabeta Gabriela, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2014]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. This volume examines our fundamental obligations as humans. The chapters offer innovative models and philosophies for responsible living, covering the areas of consumption, bioethics, community inclusion, disability, the EU debt crisis, and the body. Each, nevertheless, grapples with the central question of what we owe others, whether on the personal, societal, industrial, governmental or international level, and the problem of how far these responsibilities are realized and extended. This book's title, The Bounds of Responsibility , is therefore meant to suggest both how responsibilities should in some cases be limited, and can often be limiting. For while we cannot take full responsibility for all those we encounter, we can neither break away from the obligations that define humans. In analysing responsibility's limits, the authors formulate conclusions of differing degrees, but agree on the imperative to integrate some substantial philosophy of responsible living into social and economic structures for the common good.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Tadeusz Lewandowski and Elisabeta Gabriela Ilie

Suicide and Responsibility / Gavin Fairbairn

Shaping Imaginary Geographies into Inclusive Cities: Approaching Design for the Homeless / Elisabeta Gabriela Ilie

‘I Dream to Live on My Own Away from Family’: From Dependence to Freedom, a Shared Dream by Teens and Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities / Laurence Emmanuelle Hadjas

Acting Respectfully towards Adults with Learning Disabilities / Gavin Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn

Unethical Brotherly Love: Zell Kravinsky and Maximum Human Utility / Tadeusz Lewandowski

What Should We Consume? / Virginia Gichuru

Markets that Disappoint: The Need for Responsible Consumption / Steven Hinson

Responsibility and Restricted Economies / Domenico Cortese.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-315-3

OCLC:

1096241011

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848883154 DOI