Moral Responsibility

by Eugene S. Schlossberger and Eugene Schlossberger

Challenging traditional philosophical views of moral responsibility, Eugene Schlossberger argues that we are responsible not so much for what we do as for who we are. He explores what it means to be a person, concluding that personhood is the sum of beliefs and values--which are by no means entirely within our control. Consequently, the voluntariness of our acts--or even whether we act at all--is irrelevant to the moral evaluation of us as persons...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877228795
• ISBN13: 9780877228790
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"