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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... judgments of responsibility . Instead , we generally impose our judgments of ... moral communication in an area where such communica- tion is so desperately ... moral conscience , or in Robert Goodin's words , a mere " problem of getting ...
... judgments of responsibility . Instead , we generally impose our judgments of ... moral communication in an area where such communica- tion is so desperately ... moral conscience , or in Robert Goodin's words , a mere " problem of getting ...
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... moral responsibility that we bring to bear on our judgments of responsibility in both controversial and noncontroversial cases . In the cases cited above , we do not always acknowledge that what we have in mind is moral , as opposed to ...
... moral responsibility that we bring to bear on our judgments of responsibility in both controversial and noncontroversial cases . In the cases cited above , we do not always acknowledge that what we have in mind is moral , as opposed to ...
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... judgments , we do lay bare two controversial assumptions about the na- ture of responsibility itself . One is that individuals are blameworthy not in virtue of a decision on our part that they are worthy of our blame , but in virtue of ...
... judgments , we do lay bare two controversial assumptions about the na- ture of responsibility itself . One is that individuals are blameworthy not in virtue of a decision on our part that they are worthy of our blame , but in virtue of ...
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... judgments at the center of my analysis of moral responsibility and explore the various social and political consider- ations that ground them in practice . I also challenge the particular un- derstanding of moral responsibility that we ...
... judgments at the center of my analysis of moral responsibility and explore the various social and political consider- ations that ground them in practice . I also challenge the particular un- derstanding of moral responsibility that we ...
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... judgments of moral responsibility may not be perfect , they have the same structure as " ideal liability " in that they are based on purely factual discoveries of blameworthiness rather than on our own subjective or communal judgments ...
... judgments of moral responsibility may not be perfect , they have the same structure as " ideal liability " in that they are based on purely factual discoveries of blameworthiness rather than on our own subjective or communal judgments ...
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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