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Against Moral Responsibility

โœ Scribed by Bruce N. Waller


Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
365
Category
Library

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In Against Moral Responsibility, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions, deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present. Waller argues that, despite the creative defenses of it by contemporary thinkers, moral responsibility cannot survive in our naturalistic-scientific system. The scientific understanding of human behavior and the causes that shape human character, he contends, leaves no room for moral responsibility. Waller argues that moral responsibility in all its forms--including criminal justice, distributive justice, and all claims of just deserts--is fundamentally unfair and harmful and that its abolition will be liberating and beneficial. What we really want--natural human free will, moral judgments, meaningful human relationships, creative abilities--would survive and flourish without moral responsibility. In the course of his argument, Waller examines the origins of the basic belief in moral responsibility, proposes a naturalistic understanding of free will, offers a detailed argument against moral responsibility and critiques arguments in favor of it, gives a general account of what a world without moral responsibility would look like, and examines the social and psychological aspects of abolishing moral responsibility. Waller not only mounts a vigorous, and philosophically rigorous, attack on the moral responsibility system, but also celebrates the benefits that would result from its total abolition.

โœฆ Table of Contents


Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 Moral Responsibility......Page 14
2 The Basic Argument against Moral Responsibility......Page 32
3 Rescuing Free Will from Moral Responsibility......Page 56
4 Hierar chical Free Will and Natural Authenticity......Page 72
5 Moral Responsibility in the Gaps......Page 88
6 Taking Responsibility......Page 116
7 Responsibility for the Self You Make......Page 128
8 The Illusory Benefits of Moral Responsibility......Page 146
9 Character-Fault and Blame-Fault......Page 166
10 What Does Not Follow from the Denial of Moral Responsibility: Living Morally without Moral Responsibility......Page 192
11 The Moral Responsibility System......Page 216
12 Begging the Question for Moral Responsibility......Page 234
13 Does Moral Responsibility Promote Respect?......Page 252
14 Creative Authorship without Ultimate Responsibility......Page 270
15 A World without Moral Responsibility......Page 290
16 Is It Possible to Eliminate Moral Responsibility?......Page 318
Notes......Page 338
References......Page 342
Index......Page 360


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