Sharing responsibility /
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| Author / Creator: | May, Larry |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1992. |
| Description: | 204 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 3 has original dustjacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1409210 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Social Existentialism
- 2. Shared Attitudes
- 3. Omissions and Responsibility in Groups
- 4. Communities and Shared Values
- pt 1. Attitudes, Agency, and Responsibility
- 1. Existentialism, Self, and Voluntariness
- 1. Responsibility and Agency
- 2. Existentialism and the Self
- 3. An Underground Movement in Ethics
- 4. Voluntariness and Involuntariness
- 2. Shared Responsibility and Racist Attitudes
- 1. The Concept of Shared Responsibility
- 2. Joint Ventures and Conspiracies
- 3. Omissions and Risks
- 4. Racist Attitudes and Risks
- 5. Agency and Attitudes
- 3. Insensitivity and Moral Responsibility
- 1. The Concept of Sensitivity
- 2. Sense and Sensitivity
- 3. Insensitivity and Culpable Ignorance
- 4. The Influence of Stereotypes
- 5. Habits and One's Future Self
- pt 2. Omission, Inaction, and Groups
- 4. Groups and Personal Value Transformation
- 1. Personal and Group Values
- 2. Risking Harm and Institutional Desensitization
- 3. Responsibility and Omission in Groups
- 5. Negligence and Professional Responsibility
- 1. Negligence and Due Care
- 2. Integrity and Omissions
- 3. Personal Guilt and Negligence
- 4. Moral Integrity and Professional Negligence
- 6. Collective Inaction and Responsibility
- 1. Collection Action and Collective Inaction
- 2. Collective Responsibility and Putative Groups
- 3. Sharing Responsibility for Collective Inaction
- 4. Practical and Ontological Objections
- 5. Tragedy and Inactivity
- pt 3. Communities, Roles, and Responsibilities
- 7. Philosophers and Political Responsibility
- 1. The Philosopher as Gadfly
- 2. The Philosopher as Seeker of Wisdom
- 3. The Special Responsibilities of Philosophers
- 4. The Responsibilities of Philosophers as a Group
- 8. Metaphysical Guilt and Moral Taint
- 1. The Concept of Metaphysical Guilt
- 2. Guilt and Community Membership
- 3. The Case of South African Divestment
- 4. Expanding the Domain of Moral Responsibility
- 9. Role Conflicts, Community, and Shared Agency
- 1. Roles and Conscientiousness
- 2. Conflicts of Responsibility
- 3. Shared Agency and the Problem of Difference
- 4. Communitarianism and Discriminatory Traditions
- Notes
- Index