Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility: Fortune's Web

N. Athanassoulis

ISBN 10: 0230245536 / ISBN 13: 9780230245532

Verlag: SPRINGER NATURE Apr 2005, 2005

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility is a critical examination of our understanding of morality and responsibility through the questions raised by the problem of moral luck. The book considers two different approaches to moral luck, the Aristotelian vulnerability to factors outside the agent's control and the Kantian ambition to make morality immune to luck, and concludes that both approaches have more in common than previously thought. At the same time, it also considers recent developments in the field of virtue ethics and neo-kantianism. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in normative theories and the fundamental questions surrounding moral responsibility and the attribution of praise and blame. 200 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility: Fortune's Web
• Verlag: SPRINGER NATURE Apr 2005
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0230245536
• ISBN-13: 9780230245532
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Is it possible to make sense of moral praise and blame when a person's life is a tangled web of factors outside of his control? Cases of moral luck bring to the forefront the perplexing idea that we can be held responsible for what is, essentially, a matter of chance. This book offers a systematic and in-depth account of two major normative theories and their responses to the possibility of moral luck. Aristotle attempts to recognize the vulnerability of the good life and reconcile morality with luck, whereas the Kantian ambition is to make morality immune to luck while maintaining a plausible understanding of human nature. Using the questions raised by the problem of moral luck, this book critically assesses the most recent developments by virtue ethicists and neo-Kantians, and examines how these different theories understand concepts such as 'character' and 'virtue'.

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NAFSIKA ATHANASSOULIS is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK, where she teaches moral and practical philosophy. Her research interests include the problem of moral luck, virtue ethics, Aristotle and Kant. She has published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Res Publica and is Editor of a forthcoming volume on medical ethics.