Mapping Responsibility Choice, Guilt, Punishment, and Other Perspectives

by Fingarette, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780812695649
• ISBN10: 081269564X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

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 standpoints of moral philosophy, moral psychology, and psychoanalytic psychology. Free of academic jargon and dense references, Mapping Responsibility is written to appeal to the general reader as well as his followers in the scholarly community.

Author Biography

Herbert Fingarette is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Accepting Responsibility	p. 1
Guilt and Responsibility	p. 9
Orestes' Task	p. 19
Retributive Punishment	p. 27
Alcoholism and Legal Responsibility	p. 39
The Concept of Mental Disorder	p. 53
Does Coercion Negate Responsibility?	p. 67
Self-Deception	p. 77
The Hindu Perspective: The Bhagavad Gita	p. 87
The Confucian Perspective: The Self	p. 97
Responsibility and Indeterminism	p. 105
Suffering	p. 117
Out of the Whirlwind: The Book of Job	p. 125
Notes	p. 141
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 167
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