
Mapping Responsibility
Choice, Guilt, Punishment, and Other Perspectives
Herbert Fingarette(Author)
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Published on 12. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8126-9564-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8126-9564-9 (9780812695649)
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