FREE [DOWNLOAD] RESPONSIBILITY AND THE MORAL SENTIMENTS EBOOKS PDF Author :R Jay Wallace / Category :Philosophy / Total Pages : 275 pages
Download Responsibility And The Moral Sentiments PDF Summary : Free responsibility and the moral sentiments pdf download - r jay wallace argues in this book that moral accountability hinges on questions of fairness when is it fair to hold people morally responsible for what they do would it be fair to do so even in a deterministic world to answer these questions we need to understand what we are doing when we hold people morally responsible a stance that wallace connects with a central class of moral sentiments those of resentment indignation and guilt to hold someone responsible he argues is to be subject to these reactive emotions in one s dealings with that person developing this theme with unusual sophistication he offers a new interpretation of the reactive emotions and traces their role in our practices of blame and moral sanction with this account in place wallace advances a powerful and sustained argument against the common view that accountability requires freedom of will instead he maintains the fairness of holding people responsible depends on their rational competence the power to grasp moral reasons and to control their behavior accordingly he shows how these forms of rational competence are compatible with determinism at the same time giving serious consideration to incompatibilist concerns wallace develops a compelling diagnosis of the common assumption that freedom is necessary for responsibility rigorously argued eminently readable this book touches on issues of broad concern to philosophers legal theorists political scientists and anyone with an interest in the nature and limits of responsibility Pusblisher : Harvard University Press on 1994 / ISBN : 0674766229
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