Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions Ne Essays in Moral Psychology [Paperback]

An examination of the responsibility individuals have for their actions and characters.New definitions of responsibility emerge from original essays that address a range of issues concerning the responsibility individuals have for their actions and for their characters.New definitions of responsibility emerge from original essays that address a range of issues concerning the responsibility individuals have for their actions and for their characters.This volume of original essays addresses a range of issues concerning the responsibility individuals have for their actions and for their characters. Among the central questions considered are: what scope is there for regarding a person as responsible for his character given genetic and environmental factors; does an account of responsiblity provide a legitimate basis for the retributive emotions; are we ever justified in feeling guilty for occurrences over which we have no control; does responsibility for the consequences of our acts require that they were intended or simply expected; and how have a number of influential previous philosophers, including Aristotle, Maimonides, and Spinoza, approached these questions?Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction Ferdinand Schoeman; Part I. Responsibility and Character: 2. Identification and wholeheartedness Harry Frankfurt; 3. Sanity and the metaphysics of responsibility Susan Wolf; 4. Unfreedom and responsibility Patricia Greenspan; 5. Responsiveness and moral responsibility John Martin Fischer; 6. Determinism and freedom in Spinoza, Maimonides, and Aristotle: a retrospective study Lenn E. Goodman; 7. Emotions, responsibility, and character John Sabini and Maury Silver; Part II. Responsibility and Culpability: 8. The moral worth of retribution Michael S. Moore; 9. Nonmoral guilt Herbert Morris; 10. Provocation and culpability Andrew Von Hirsch and Nils Jareborg; 11. Responsibility and the limits of evil: variations on a Strawsonian theme Gary Watson; 12. Statistical norms and moralƒš