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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mason, Elinor
Titre(s) : Ways to be blameworthy [Texte imprimé] : rightness, wrongness, and responsibility / Elinor Mason
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-237 p.) ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 215-227. Notes bibliogr. Index
There must be some connection between our deontic notions, rightness and wrongness,
and our responsibility notions, praise- and blameworthiness. Yet traditional approaches
to each set of concepts tend to take the other set for granted. This book takes an
integrated approach to these questions, drawing on both ethics and responsibility
theory, and thereby illuminating both sets of concepts. Elinor Mason describes this
as 'normative responsibility theory': the primary aim is not to give an account of
the conditions of agency, but to give an account of what sort of wrong action makes
blame fitting. She presents a pluralistic view of both obligation and blameworthiness,
identifying three different ways to be blameworthy, corresponding to different ways
of acting wrongly. First, ordinary blameworthiness is essentially connected to subjective
wrongness, to acting wrongly by one's own lights. Subjective obligation, and ordinary
blame, apply only to those who are within our moral community, who understand and
share our value system. By contrast, detached blame can apply even when the agent
is outside our moral community, and has no sense that her act is morally wrong. In
detached blame, the blame rather than the blameworthiness is fundamental. Finally,
agents can take responsibility for some inadvertent wrongs, and thus become responsible.
This third sort of blameworthiness, 'extended blameworthiness', applies when the agent
understands the objective wrongness of her act, but has no bad will. In such cases,
the social context may be such that the agent should take responsibility, and accept
ordinary blame from the wronged party
Sujet(s) : Responsabilité
Blâme
Culpabilité
Morale
Faux (philosophie)
Normes sociales
Indice(s) Dewey :
170 (23e éd.) = Morale
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198833601. - ISBN 9780198833604
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46585122m
Notice n° :
FRBNF46585122
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Table des matières : Introduction ; Subjective obligation ; Trying to do well by morality ; Ordinary
praiseworthiness and blameworthiness ; Praise and blame ; Excuses ; Exemptions
; Taking responsibility ; Conclusion.
