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Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility

Fortune's Web

  • Paperback
  • 214 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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Is it possible to make sense of moral praise and blame when a person's life is a tangled web of factors outside of his control? Cases of moral luck bring to the forefront the perplexing idea that we can be held responsible for what is, essentially, a matter of chance. This book offers a systematic and in-depth account of two major normative theories and their responses to the possibility of moral luck. Aristotle attempts to recognize the vulnerability of the good life and reconcile morality with luck, whereas the Kantian ambition is to make morality immune to luck while maintaining a plausible understanding of human nature. Using the questions raised by the problem of moral luck, this book critically assesses the most recent developments by virtue ethicists and neo-Kantians, and examines how these different theories understand concepts such as 'character' and 'virtue'.
Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility and The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham
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  • Author

    N. Athanassoulis

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    February 2010

  • Weight

    277g

  • Page Count

    214

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780230245532

  • ISBN-10

    0230245536

  • Eden Code

    4565305

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