You might also like

More about Complicity

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 81 loyalty points

Book synopsis

We live in a morally flawed world. Our lives are complicated by what other people do, and by the harms that flow from our social, economic and political institutions. Our relations as individuals to these collective harms constitute the domain of complicity. This book examines the relationship between collective responsibility and individual guilt. It presents a rigorous philosophical account of the nature of our relations to the social groups in which we participate, and uses that account in a discussion of contemporary moral theory. Christopher Kutz shows that the two prevailing theories of moral philosophy, Kantianism and consequentialism, both have difficulties resolving problems of complicity. He then argues for a richer theory of accountability in which any real understanding of collective action not only allows but demands individual responsibility.

Book details

Book category Books in English Law Jurisprudence & general issues Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

• Full title: Complicity
• Subtitle: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age
• Author: Kutz, Christopher (University of California, Berkeley)
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9780521039703
• ISBN: 0521039703
• ID: 04089939
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 538 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 154 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. August 2007

Trending among others

---

---

---