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Author Meyer, Susan Sauvé.

Title Aristotle on moral responsibility : character and cause / Susan Sauvé Meyer
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages)
Contents Introduction: Moral responsibility and Aristotle's concerns -- 1. Moral responsibility and moral character -- 2. Voluntariness, praiseworthiness, and character -- 3. The dialectical inquiry into voluntariness -- 4. Force, compulsion, and the internal origin of action -- 5. Responsibility for character: its scope and significance -- 6. Moral agency and the origination of action -- App. I. Varieties of knowledge and ignorance -- App. II. "Up to us" and the internal origin
Summary This text presents a striking interpretation of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. The author argues that they constitute a distinctive theory of moral responsibility, and provides powerful responses to notorious puzzles in the account
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. English.
SUBJECT Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle) fast
Subject Ethics, Ancient.
Responsibility.
Character.
Causation.
Character
Causation
Character
Ethics, Ancient
Responsibility
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191732072
0191732079