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Moral responsibility and the boundaries of community : power and accountability from a pragmatic point of view /
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 multina...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©1992.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; 1. Introduction; Part One; 2. Communal Blame and the Classical Worldview; 3. Transcendental Authority and the Damnation of Christian Sinners; 4. Internalized Transcendence and the Modern Moral Conscience; Part Two; 5. Moral Responsibility and the Prevention of Harm; 6. Social Expectations, Role Playing, and the Primacy of Moral Agency; 7. Moral Agency and the Distribution of Organizational Blame; Part Three; 8. Actions, Consequences, and the Boundaries of Community; 9. Private Bame and Public Accountability; 10. Conclusion: Morality and Power; Bibiliography; Index.