Toward a New (Old) Theory of Responsibility: Moving beyond Accountability, 1st ed. 2019 SpringerBriefs in Ethics Series
Auteur : Koehn Daryl
This book offers a much needed overview of the neglected notion of responsibility. Instead of offering vague talk about ?individual responsibility? or ?corporate responsibility,? Daryl Koehn examines in detail four accounts of responsibility, taking care to specify what responsibility does and does not mean in each account. She argues for a return to the ancient concept of Socratic dialogical responsibility, a concept that avoids many of the problems inherent in the other accounts.
After examining the Anglo-American criminal legal system?s treatment of responsibility as intentional agency, she critiques Hans Jonas?s concept of responsibility as ontological care and Hannah Arendt?s notion of communicative responsibility. She provides a careful analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach to responsibility. The final chapter makes the case for Socratic dialogical responsibility. Dialogical responsibility hasmany strengths in its own right and avoids the major pitfalls of the other notions of responsibility examined in the book. It serves as an eminently practical way to hold ourselves responsible for our actions and speech. In addition, dialogical responsibility alone qualifies as a virtue integral to the good life.
Chapter 1. Why We Need a New (Old) Idea of Responsibility.- Chapter 2. Intentional Agency Responsibility in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition.- Chapter 3. Jonasian Ontological Responsibility.- Chapter 4. Arendtian Communicative Responsibility.- Chapter 5. Socratic Dialogical Responsibility.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
Date de parution : 04-2019
Ouvrage de 89 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
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Mots-clés :
Why We Need Ethics; Theory of Responsibility; Care for the World; Platonic Dialogical Responsibility; Individual responsibility; Corporate responsibility; Anglo-American legal system; concept of intentional responsibility; Malicious intent; Moral duty to care for the world; Hans Jonas; Hannah Arendt; Dialogical responsibility; Responsibility in the business sector; Plato; Criminal responsibility; Evil behaviour; Plato’s dialogues the Charmides and the Greater Hippias; Live a life worth living; Responsible for your actions