Personal Responsibility
Why it Matters
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2009
224 pages
978-1-4411-5490-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 personal responsibility. Articulate, provocative, and stimulating, this timely book will make a significant contribution to one of the most important debates of our time.
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 personal responsibility. Articulate, provocative, and stimulating, this timely book will make a significant contribution to one of the most important debates of our time.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-5490-3 (9781441154903)
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Person
Alexander Brown is a Teaching Fellow in Political Theory at the School of Public Policy, University College London, UK. He is the author of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Equality (Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan).
Content
1. Introduction
2. What is Personal Responsibility?
3. What Do Philosophers Think? Part I
4. What Do Philosophers Think? Part II
5. What Do Politicians Think?
6. What Do Ordinary People Think?
7. Five Contemporary Issues in Focus
8. So How Do We Decide?
9. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
2. What is Personal Responsibility?
3. What Do Philosophers Think? Part I
4. What Do Philosophers Think? Part II
5. What Do Politicians Think?
6. What Do Ordinary People Think?
7. Five Contemporary Issues in Focus
8. So How Do We Decide?
9. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
