Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community: Power and Accountability from a Pragmatic Point of ViewUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.09.2009 - 296 Seiten The question of responsibility plays a critical role not only in our attempts to resolve social and political problems, but in our very conceptions of what those problems are. Who, for example, is to blame for apartheid in South Africa? Is the South African government responsible? What about multinational corporations that do business there? Will uncovering the "true facts of the matter" lead us to the right answer? In an argument both compelling and provocative, Marion Smiley demonstrates how attributions of blame—far from being based on an objective process of factual discovery—are instead judgments that we ourselves make on the basis of our own political and social points of view. She argues that our conception of responsibility is a singularly modern one that locates the source of blameworthiness in an individual's free will. After exploring the flaws inherent in this conception, she shows how our judgments of blame evolve out of our configuration of social roles, our conception of communal boundaries, and the distribution of power upon which both are based. The great strength of Smiley's study lies in the way in which it brings together both rigorous philosophical analysis and an appreciation of the dynamics of social and political practice. By developing a pragmatic conception of moral responsibility, this work illustrates both how moral philosophy can enhance our understanding of social and political practices and why reflection on these practices is necessary to the reconstruction of our moral concepts. |
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... apartheid in South Africa , I was forced to confront two rather trouble- some aspects of the prevailing view of responsibility . The first was its dependence on a notion of free will that probably does not exist . The second was its ...
... apartheid in South Africa , I was forced to confront two rather trouble- some aspects of the prevailing view of responsibility . The first was its dependence on a notion of free will that probably does not exist . The second was its ...
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... apartheid in South Africa ? Are antiapartheid activists correct to point their fingers at U.S. investors , or does responsibility for the suffering of South African blacks stop at the borders of South Africa itself ? In cases such as ...
... apartheid in South Africa ? Are antiapartheid activists correct to point their fingers at U.S. investors , or does responsibility for the suffering of South African blacks stop at the borders of South Africa itself ? In cases such as ...
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... apartheid in South Africa . If we are participants in these debates , we may think of ourselves as pursuing a purely causal analysis of the relationship between those who invest in multinational corporations and the suffering of South ...
... apartheid in South Africa . If we are participants in these debates , we may think of ourselves as pursuing a purely causal analysis of the relationship between those who invest in multinational corporations and the suffering of South ...
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... apartheid . Presumably most of us are aware that our judgments of responsibility in this case are shaped in part by our more general beliefs about the proper role of U.S. businesses in the world . Likewise , when we make our judgments ...
... apartheid . Presumably most of us are aware that our judgments of responsibility in this case are shaped in part by our more general beliefs about the proper role of U.S. businesses in the world . Likewise , when we make our judgments ...
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... apartheid . Here we are surely aware that those among us who consider U.S. capitalists responsible for apartheid in South Africa share a general political perspective on the role that U.S. businesses should play in our community . But ...
... apartheid . Here we are surely aware that those among us who consider U.S. capitalists responsible for apartheid in South Africa share a general political perspective on the role that U.S. businesses should play in our community . But ...
Inhalt
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Part One | 31 |
2 Communal Blame and the Classical Worldview | 33 |
3 Transcendental Authority and the Damnation of Christian Sinners | 58 |
4 Internalized Transcendence and the Modern Moral Conscience | 72 |
Part Two | 103 |
5 Moral Responsibility and the Prevention of Harm | 105 |
6 Social Expectations Role Playing and the Primacy of Moral Agency | 130 |
7 Moral Agency and the Distribution of Organizational Blame | 149 |
Part Three | 165 |
8 Actions Consequences and the Boundaries of Community | 167 |
9 Private Bame and Public Accountability | 225 |
Morality and Power | 255 |
273 | |
285 | |
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Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community: Power and ... Marion Smiley Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1992 |
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