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  title info:
    title: Ways to be blameworthy
    sub title: rightness, wrongness, and responsibility
  name:
    name part: Mason, Elinor
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: There must be some connection between our deontic notions, rightness and wrongness and our responsibility notions, praise- and blameworthiness. Yet traditional approaches to each set of concepts tend to take the other set for granted. This book takes an integrated approach to these questions, drawing on both ethics and responsibility theory, and thereby illuminating both sets of concepts. Elinor Mason describes this as 'normative responsibility theory.' The primary aim is not to give an account of the conditions of agency, but to give an account of what sort of wrong action makes blame fitting. She presents a pluralistic view of both obligation and blameworthiness, identifying three different ways to be blameworthy, corresponding to different ways of acting wrongly. First, ordinary blameworthiness is essentially connected to subjective wrongness, to acting wrongly by one's own lights. Subjective obligation, and ordinary blame, apply only to those who are within our moral community, who understand and share our value system. By contrast, detached blame can apply even when the agent is outside our moral community, and has no sense that her act is morally wrong. In detached blame, the blame rather than the blameworthiness is fundamental. Finally, agents can take responsibility for some inadvertent wrongs, and thus become responsible. This third sort of blameworthiness, 'extended blameworthiness,' applies when the agent understands the objective wrongness of her act, but has no bad will. In such cases, the social context may be such that the agent should take responsibility, and accept ordinary blame from the wronged party.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Subjective obligation -- Trying to do well by morality -- Ordinary praiseworthiness and blameworthiness -- Praise and blame -- Excuses -- Exemptions -- Taking responsibility -- Conclusion.
  note: Elinor Mason.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-227) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Right and wrong
  subject:
    topic: Blame
  classification: BJ1451 .M37 2019
  classification: 170
  identifier: 0198833601
  identifier: 9780198833604
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 181109
    record change date: 20191021075930.0
    record identifier: in00004072468