Moral Responsibility

Christopher Cowley

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How and to what degree are we responsible for our characters, our lives, our misfortunes, our relationships and our children? This question is at the heart of Moral Responsibility. The book explores accusations and denials of moral responsibility for particular acts, responsibility for character, and the role of luck and fate in ethics. Moral responsibility as the grounds for a retributivist theory of punishment is examined, alongside discussions of forgiveness, parental responsibility, and responsibility before God. The book also discusses collective responsibility, bringing in notions of complicity and membership, and drawing on the seminal contemporary discussion of collective agency and responsibility: the Nuremberg trials.

"Focusing careful attention on the relevant literature and related examples, Cowley brings out what is at issue, adds his own insights, and helps us think more wisely about moral responsibility.'"

Duncan Richter

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-20

I - Retrospective responsibility

1 - Defining retrospective responsibility
pp 21-44

2 - Responsibility for mistakes
pp 45-64

3 - Apology and forgiveness
pp 65-90

4 - Punishment
pp 91-112

5 - Moral luck
pp 113-134

II - Prospective responsibility

6 - Role-responsibility
pp 135-154

7 - Responsibility for strangers
pp 155-172

8 - Learning to love
pp 173-194

Conclusion
pp 195-196

Notes
pp 197-206

Bibliography
pp 207-210

Index
pp 211-215

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