Complicity : Ethics and Law for a Collective Age
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
ISBN-10
0521039703
ISBN-13
9780521039703
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 16th, 2007
Print length
344 Pages
Weight
538 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.40 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Jurisprudence & philosophy of lawMethods, theory and philosophy of law
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This book examines the relationship between collective responsibility and individual guilt. It presents a rigorous philosophical account of the nature of our relations to the social groups in which we participate, and uses that account in a discussion of contemporary moral theory.
We live in a morally flawed world. Our lives are complicated by what other people do, and by the harms that flow from our social, economic and political institutions. Our relations as individuals to these collective harms constitute the domain of complicity. This book examines the relationship between collective responsibility and individual guilt. It presents a rigorous philosophical account of the nature of our relations to the social groups in which we participate, and uses that account in a discussion of contemporary moral theory. Christopher Kutz shows that the two prevailing theories of moral philosophy, Kantianism and consequentialism, both have difficulties resolving problems of complicity. He then argues for a richer theory of accountability in which any real understanding of collective action not only allows but demands individual responsibility.
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