Sharing Responsibility

By: Larry May

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Paperback | 1 June 1996 | Edition Number 1

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Are individuals responsible for the consequences of actions taken by their community? What about their community's inaction or its attitudes? In this innovative book, Larry May departs from the traditional Western view that moral responsibility is limited to the consequences of overt individual action. Drawing on the insights of Arendt, Jaspers, and Sartre, he argues that even when individuals are not direct participants, they share responsibility for various harms perpetrated by their communities.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Social Existentialism
Shared Attitudes
Omissions and Responsibility in Groups
Communities and Shared Values
Attitudes, Agency, and Responsibility
Existentialism, Self, and Voluntariness
Responsibility and Agency
Existentialism and the Self
An Underground Movement in Ethics
Voluntariness and Involuntariness
Shared Responsibility and Racist Attitudes
The Concept of Shared Responsibility
Joint Ventures and Conspiracies
Omissions and Risks
Racist Attitudes and Risks
Agency and Attitudes
Insensitivity and Moral Responsibility
The Concept of Sensitivity
Sense and Sensitivity
Insensitivity and Culpable Ignorance
The Influence of Stereotypes
Habits and One's Future Self
Omission, Inaction, and Groups
Groups and Personal Value Transformation
Personal and Group Values
Risking Harm and Institutional Desensitization
Responsibility and Omission in Groups
Negligence and Professional Responsibility
Negligence and Due Care
Integrity and Omissions
Personal Guilt and Negligence
Moral Integrity and Professional Negligence
Collective Inaction and Responsibility
Collection Action and Collective Inaction
Collective Responsibility and Putative Groups
Sharing Responsibility for Collective Inaction
Practical and Ontological Objections
Tragedy and Inactivity
Communities, Roles, and Responsibilities
Philosophers and Political Responsibility
The Philosopher as Gadfly
The Philosopher as Seeker of Wisdom
The Special Responsibilities of Philosophers
The Responsibilities of Philosophers as a Group
Metaphysical Guilt and Moral Taint
The Concept of Metaphysical Guilt
Guilt and Community Membership
The Case of South African Divestment
Expanding the Domain of Moral Responsibility
Role Conflicts, Community, and Shared Agency
Roles and Conscientiousness
Conflicts of Responsibility
Shared Agency and the Problem of Difference
Communitarianism and Discriminatory Traditions
Notes
Index
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