Aristotle on moral responsibility
Subtitle: character and cause
By: Susan Sauvé Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780199697434
Subjects: Responsibility; Causation; Character; Ancient Ethics
Description: This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauvé Meyer's 1993 book, in which she presents a comprehensive examination of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. She makes the case that these constitute a theory of moral responsibility - albeit one with important differences from modern theories.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Moral responsibility and Aristotle's concerns; title: 1. Moral responsibility and moral character; title: 2. Voluntariness, praiseworthiness, and character; title: 3. The dialectical inquiry into voluntariness; title: 4.  Force, compulsion, and the internal origin of action; title: 5.  Responsibility for character: its scope and significance; title: 6. Moral agency and the origination of action; title: App. I. Varieties of knowledge and ignorance; title: App. II. "Up to us" and the internal origin.