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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. English.
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SUBJECT |
Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle) fast |
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Ethics, Ancient.
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Responsibility.
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Character.
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Causation.
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Character
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Causation
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Character
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Ethics, Ancient
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Responsibility
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191732072 |
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0191732079 |
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