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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2010
      October 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511663758
      9780521594523
      9780521039703
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511663758
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 344 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.517kg, 344 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law: General Interest, Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
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    Subjects:
    Law: General Interest, Law, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
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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 account in a discussion of contemporary moral theory. Christopher Kutz shows that the two prevailing theories of moral philosophy, Kantianism and consequentialism, both have difficulties resolving problems of complicity. He then argues for a richer theory of accountability in which any real understanding of collective action not only allows but demands individual responsibility.

    Reviews

    "...[a] careful, thorough and, at the same time, imaginative and socially and politically relevant book." Law and Politics

    "Christopher Kutz has written an excellent book: part metaphysics, part ethical theory, and part legal philosophy...The book should be read widely by anyone interested in issues of moral and legal responsibility." The Philosophical Review

    "...thoughtful, stylish, and wide-ranging...this lucid and stimulating book is a significant contribution to the literature." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

    "Filled with concrete examples, imagined, literary, and historical, Kutz's wide-ranging and probing discussion is written in measured and elegant prose... This thoughtful and stimulating book is a significant addition to the literature." Margaret Gilbert, Social Theory and Practice

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