โ Scribed by Stephen Kershnar
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do. In particular, it argues that what people do is neither right nor wrong and that they are neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for doing it. Morality and moral responsibility lie at the heart of how we view the world. In our daily life, we feel that people act rightly or wrongly, make the world better or worse, and are virtuous or vicious. These policies are central to our justifying how we see the world and treat others. In this book, the author argues that our views on these matters are false. He presents a series of arguments that threaten to undermine our theoretical and practical worldviews. The philosophical costs of denying moral responsibility and morality are enormous. It does violence to philosophical positions that many people took a lifetime to develop. Worse, it does violence to our everyday view of people. A host of concepts that we rely on daily (praiseworthy, blameworthy, desert, virtue, right, wrong, good, bad, etc.) fail to refer to any property in the world and are thus deeply mistaken. This book is of interest to philosophers, lawyers, and humanities professors as well as people interested in morality, law, religion, and public policy.
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 1-7
Front Matter ....Pages 7-7
How Consent Works (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 11-25
Problems with Forfeiture (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 27-42
Against Proportionality: Proportionality Is not a Side-Constraint on Punishment (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 43-61
Rights Fail and Why This Explains the Other Failures (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 63-82
Front Matter ....Pages 83-83
No Responsibility (Responsibility and Foundationalism) (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 85-107
If There Were Responsibility, It Wouldnโt Do Much Work (Responsibility and Internalism) (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 109-131
No Responsibility No Morality (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 133-147
Responsibility Revisionists and Skeptics (Stephen Kershnar)....Pages 149-161
Back Matter ....Pages 163-193
Philosophy; Ethics; Religion and Society
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