Agency and Responsibility

"Taking the problem of weakness of will as her starting point, Jeanette Kennett builds an account of moral agency which gives a central place to the capacity for self-control. Her account of the exercise and limits of self-control vindicates the common-sense distinction between weakness of will and compulsion and so underwrites our ordinary allocations of moral responsibility. She addresses a range of topics in moral psychology, such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, and the varieties of recklessness (here characterised as culpable bad judgement) - and does so in terms which make their relations to each other and to the challenges of real life obvious. Agency and Responsibility concludes by testing the accounts developed of self-control, moral failure and moral responsibility against the hard cases provided by acts of extreme evil."--Jacket.

שנה

2001

שפה

English

הוצאה

Oxford University Press, USA

מהדורות

2

עמודים

240

ISBN

9780198236580

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata