Mapping Responsibility: Choice, Guilt, Punishment, and Other Perspectives

by Herbert Fingarette

Overview

Herbert Fingarette explores the terrain of moral responsibility. As a philosophical idea, responsibility poses vexing questions such as what does it mean to be a responsible person? or i why is it that some individuals are causaly responsible for something, but not legally or morally accountable? And what is the authority that holds people responsible for their actions?
In exploring these, Fingarette employs a diversse range of ideas including standpoints of moral philosophy, moral psychology, and psychoanalytic psychology. Free of academic jargon and dense references, Mapping Responsibility is written to appeal to the general reader as well as his followers in the scholarly community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812695649
Publisher:	Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/30/2004
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
1.	Accepting Responsibility	1
2.	Guilt and Responsibility	9
3.	Orestes' Task	19
4.	Retributive Punishment	27
5.	Alcoholism and Legal Responsibility	39
6.	The Concept of Mental Disorder	53
7.	Does Coercion Negate Responsibility?	67
8.	Self-Deception	77
9.	The Hindu Perspective: The Bhagavad Gita	87
10.	The Confucian Perspective: The Self	97
11.	Responsibility and Indeterminism	105
12.	Suffering	117
13.	Out of the Whirlwind: The Book of Job	125
	Notes	141
	Bibliography	161
	Index	167