Mapping Responsibility: Explorations in Mind, Law, Myth, and CultureOpen Court Publishing, 2004 - 174 páginas Written for philosophers as well as general readers interested in social and moral issues, Mapping Responsibility is a thoughtful exploration of the ambiguous terrain of moral responsibility. As a philosophical idea, responsibility poses vexing questions: What does it mean to be a responsible person -- that is, one who is justly held accountable and possibly punishable for an action? In exploring this and other important questions, author Herbert Fingarette employs an interdisciplinary range of ideas. He uses the theoretical standpoints of moral philosophy, moral psychology, and psychoanalytic psychology and also taps into legal scholarship on criminal justice to discuss retribution, punishment, and the state. |
Contenido
ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY | 1 |
Ghosts Spiders and North Koreans | 5 |
GUILT AND RESPONSIBILITY | 9 |
ORESTES TASK | 19 |
RETRIBUTIVE PUNISHMENT | 27 |
ALCOHOLISM AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY | 39 |
THE CONCEPT OF MENTAL DISORDER | 53 |
DOES COERCION NEGATE RESPONSIBILITY? | 67 |
THE BHAGAVAD GITA | 87 |
THE SELF | 97 |
RESPONSIBILITY AND INDETERMINISM | 105 |
THE BOOK OF JOB | 125 |
Notes | 141 |
Morse S Culpability and Control University of Pennsylvania Law Review 142 | 142 |
Bibliography | 161 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accept responsibility action Aegisthus Aeschylus analysis Arjuna attention behavior Bhagavad Gita Book of Job choice chronic alcoholism chun tzu clinically significant coerced coercion command concept of alcoholism conduct Confucius consciousness context course crime criminal culture-alien defense Dhorme disease concept disobedience drinking DSM-IV duhkha Elihu English Bible example executive purpose fact Fingarette Freud God's guilt gunas happens holism human Ibid idea impose impulse indeterminacy individual intention involuntary issue Job's justice language Lao Tzu loss of control matter meaning mental disorder mind moral responsibility motives notion Oedipal conflict Oedipus one's Oresteia Orestes Orestes story pain paradox passive patient penalty-condition person perspective philosophical physical psychiatric psychoanalytic psychological question rational reasonable recognize repression retributive punishment role says schizophrenia Self-Deception sense simply speak specific suffering Tao Te Ching teaching term theory things thinking thoughts tion translation true tzu's unconscious wish words Yahweh