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Responsibility and Practical Freedom
Overview
This book may be taken as a plea for a return to a teleological moral philosophy. Mrs Roberts examines responsibility and freedom in terms of human interests and purposes and seeks to establish the autonomy of the personal decision. F. H. Bradley's criteria for moral responsibility serves as a starting point, but Mrs Roberts finds these theoretical and remote. She builds up an account of the social context in which we learn to use words like 'responsibility', 'freedom' and 'action'. Ambiguities in the use of 'action' and 'perception' are dealt with at length.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780521166386
- ISBN-10: 0521166381
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: January 2012
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.73 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.92 pounds
- Page Count: 328
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