The Responsibility of Reason

The Responsibility of Reason

Author: Ralph Hancock

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2011-01-16

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1442207396

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In The Responsibility of Reason, Ralph C. Hancock undertakes no less than to answer the Heideggerian challenge. Offering trenchant and original interpretations of Aristotle, Heidegger, Strauss, and Alexis de Tocqueville, he argues that Tocqueville saw the essential more clearly than apparently deeper philosophers. Hancock addresses political theorists on the question of the grounding of liberalism, and, at the same time, philosophers on the most basic questions of the meaning and limits of reason. Moreover, he shows how these questions are for us inseparable.


Reason and Responsibility

Reason and Responsibility

Author: Joel Feinberg

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 9780534625573

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The Twelfth Edition of this best-selling, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. This new edition features more readings than ever before--79 total--all, where necessary, in the finest translations available. The readings complement each other and naturally build on the topic being covered. Clear, concise introductions to each Part provide just enough guidance to let students learn from experiencing the readings themselves. The text's long-heralded selection of readings covers topics such as reason and religious belief, human knowledge, mind and its place in nature, determinism, free will and responsibility, and morality and its critics in five parts with careful attention to opposing points of view.


Hegel's Theory of Responsibility

Hegel's Theory of Responsibility

Author: Mark Alznauer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1107078121

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The first book-length treatment of a central concept in Hegel's practical philosophy - the theory of responsibility. This theory is both original and radical in its emphasis on the role and importance of social and historical conditions as a context for our actions.


Freedom and Responsibility

Freedom and Responsibility

Author: Hilary Bok

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1400822734

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Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach here, as she seeks to show that the two ideas are compatible by drawing on the distinction between practical and theoretical reasoning. Bok argues that when we engage in practical reasoning--the kind that involves asking "what should I do?" and sifting through alternatives to find the most justifiable course of action--we have reason to hold ourselves responsible for what we do. But when we engage in theoretical reasoning--searching for causal explanations of events--we have no reason to apply concepts like freedom and responsibility. Bok contends that libertarians' arguments against "compatibilist" justifications of moral responsibility fail because they describe human actions only from the standpoint of theoretical reasoning. To establish this claim, she examines which conceptions of freedom of the will and moral responsibility are relevant to practical reasoning and shows that these conceptions are not vulnerable to many objections that libertarians have directed against compatibilists. Bok concludes that the truth or falsity of the claim that we are free and responsible agents in the sense those conceptions spell out is ultimately independent of deterministic accounts of the causes of human actions. Clearly written and powerfully argued, Freedom and Responsibility is a major addition to current debate about some of philosophy's oldest and deepest questions.


From Normativity to Responsibility

From Normativity to Responsibility

Author: Joseph Raz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0199693811

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What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? Joseph Raz examines the philosophical issues underlying these everyday questions. He explores the nature of normativity--the reasoning behind certain beliefs and emotions about how we should behave--and offers a novel account of responsibility.


The Problems of Philosophy

The Problems of Philosophy

Author: Bertrand Russell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0192854232

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This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.


The Origins of Responsibility

The Origins of Responsibility

Author: François Raffoul

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0253221730

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François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition.


Who Knew?

Who Knew?

Author: George Sher

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-08-07

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0199744963

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Unlike most other discussions of responsibility, which focus on the idea that to be responsible, agents must in some sense act voluntarily, this book focuses on the relatively neglected idea that they must in some sense know what they are doing. Because it integrates first-and-third personal elements, this account is well suited to capture the complexity of responsible agents, who at once have their own private perspectives and live in a public world.


Personal Responsibility

Personal Responsibility

Author: Alexander Brown

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-11-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1847063993

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Individual responsibility is an issue at the heart of public debates surrounding justice today - this book explores the philosophical implications of this hugely topical contemporary debate.


Responsibility and Control

Responsibility and Control

Author: John Martin Fischer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-10-13

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1316583759

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This book provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility. The authors explore the conditions under which individuals are morally responsible for actions, omissions, consequences, and emotions. The leading idea in the book is that moral responsibility is based on 'guidance control'. This control has two components: the mechanism that issues in the relevant behavior must be the agent's own mechanism, and it must be appropriately responsive to reasons. The book develops an account of both components. The authors go on to offer a sustained defense of the thesis that moral responsibility is compatible with causal determinism.