Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility: Fortune's Web

by Nafsika Athanassoulis

Book Overview

Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility is a critical examination of our understanding of morality and responsibility through the questions raised by the problem of moral luck. The book considers two different approaches to moral luck, the Aristotelian vulnerability to factors outside the agent's control and the Kantian ambition to make morality immune to luck, and concludes that both approaches have more in common than previously thought. At the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349517887
• ISBN13: 9781349517886
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"