Responsibility Matters
Responsibility Matters by Peter A. French, published by University Press of Kansas in 1992, is a revised edition that spans 229 pages. This book explores the complexities of responsibility, highlighting how individuals often attempt to evade both positive and negative responsibilities. French argues that responsibility is not merely a moral obligation but a set of practices that help us navigate individual and social behavior.
In Responsibility Matters, readers will find an investigation into various aspects of responsibility, including its theoretical foundations and practical applications. French employs examples from literature, film, and contemporary events to examine responsibility in diverse contexts such as political, environmental, legal, and corporate realms. The book also addresses broader themes like fate, innocence, and the dynamics of power and control, making it a comprehensive study of ethics and moral philosophy.
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Most of us spend a fair amount of time trying to avoid responsibility. That’s not too astounding. What is surprising, says Peter French, is that we tend to dodge the good variety as well as the bad.
“The problem for most of us, excepting moral masochists, is that responsibility does get doled,” he writes. “The strategy is either not to be in the receiving line or to find a way to get as little dumped on one’s plate as possible, to trade off to others as much as one can. Consequently, the responsibility barter game is probably the most common experience ordinary people have with morality.”
In Responsibility Matters, French investigates a variety of matters relating to responsibility-from theoretical aspects and elements of the concept of responsibility to specific areas of application and general issues in moral theory. Unlike Kant and others who see responsibility as a necessary presupposition of practical life, he believes it is a set of practices that we use to describe and understand individual and social behavior.
Using examples from literature, film, and current events as well as traditional philosophical literature, he raises questions about responsibility in political, environmental, legal, medical, corporate, and military justice matters. He also covers other issues, including fate, innocence, power, control, and individual and group responsibility.
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