Responsibility
By: edited by Barbara Darling-Smith
Contributors: Darling-Smith, Barbara, 1954-
Publisher: Lexington Books; Published in cooperation with Institute for Philosophy and Religion, Boston University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD; [Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780739120279; 9780739120286
Subjects: Responsibility
Description: In this book, philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. The editor brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Responsibility and selfhood. Responsible fictions / David Roochnik; title: Responsibility without a self / Malcolm David Eckel; title: "The way is made in the walking": responsibility as relational virtuosity / Roger T. Ames; title: "Where art thou?": biblical perspectives on responsibility / Michael Zank. Pt. II. Responsible roles toward other human beings. Moral responsibility in a democratic society / Bhikhu Parekh; title: Am I my brother's keeper? An Aristotelian take on responsibility for others / Anna Lännström; title: Tasteless historical stories: a historical theologian's responsibility to past and present / Margaret R. Miles; title: Balancing medicine's moral ledger: realigning trust and responsibility / Alfred I. Tauber; title: Responsibilities of corporations: managing profitably and morally / Tom Chappell. Pt. III. Responsibility toward nonhuman beings and the Earth. Toward an art of dwelling / Andrea Nightingale; title: Ecological and social responsibility: the making of the Earth Charter / Steven C. Rockefeller. Appendix: The Earth Charter