Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility: Fortune's Web

Athanassoulis, Nafsika

ISBN 10: 0230245536 / ISBN 13: 9780230245532

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Synopsis:

Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility is a critical examination of our understanding of morality and responsibility through the questions raised by the problem of moral luck. The book considers two different approaches to moral luck, the Aristotelian vulnerability to factors outside the agent's control and the Kantian ambition to make morality immune to luck, and concludes that both approaches have more in common than previously thought. At the same time, it also considers recent developments in the field of virtue ethics and neo-kantianism. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in normative theories and the fundamental questions surrounding moral responsibility and the attribution of praise and blame.

About the Author: NAFSIKA ATHANASSOULIS is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK, where she teaches moral and practical philosophy. Her research interests include the problem of moral luck, virtue ethics, Aristotle and Kant. She has published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Res Publica and is Editor of a forthcoming volume on medical ethics.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility: ...
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good