Complicity Ethics and Law for a Collective Age |
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| Author:
| Kutz, Christopher |
| Contribution by:
| Postema, Gerald
Coleman, Jules
Duff, Antony
Lyons, David
MacCormick, Neil
Munzer, Stephen R.
Pettit, Philip
Raz, Joseph
Waldron, Jeremy |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-59452-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2000 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $95.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionWe 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.