Mapping Responsibility: Explorations in Mind, Law, Myth, and Culture

by Herbert Fingarette

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081269564X
• ISBN13: 9780812695649
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"