Responsibility

by J.R. Lucas

Book Overview

Responsibility is a key concept in our moral, social and political thinking, but is not itself properly understood. In this book J.R. Lucas elucidates it in terms of answerability--the obligation to answer the question: Why did you do it? He develops this account to include negative
responsibility-- Why did you not do something about it?-- and shared responsibility, which together yield the rationale of political responsibility. In disentangling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019823578X
• ISBN13: 9780198235781
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"