On Becoming Responsible

by Michael S. Pritchard

Book Overview

Michael Pritchard's study of individual morality is set in the trenches, in the valley of life itself. The moral agent he describes is real, not one of the rarified, rational characters portrayed in most ethics texts. Thus the view of morality Pritchard presents in these eleven essays is pluralistic, complex, and down-to-earth.

Pritchard rejects the premise that moral development begins in self-interest, citing evidence of empathy and moral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700604448
• ISBN13: 9780700604449
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"