The Imperative of Responsibility
Subtitle: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 15, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780226405971
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy; Ethics; Moral and ethical aspects; Responsibility; Technology; Technology and ethics
First sentence: All previous ethics-whether in the form of issuing direct enjoinders to do and not to do certain things, or in the form of defining principles for such enjoinders, or in the form of establishing the ground of obligation for obeying such principles-had these interconnected tacit premises in common: that the human condition, determined by the nature of man and the nature of things was given once for all; that the human good on that basis was readily determinable; and that the range of human action and therefore responsibility was narrowly circumscribed.