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In Praise of Blame (Paperback)
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In Praise of Blame (Paperback)
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Blame is an unpopular and neglected notion: it goes against the
grain of a therapeutically-oriented culture and has been far less
discussed by philosophers than such related notions as
responsibility and punishment. This book seeks to show that neither
the opposition nor the neglect is justified. The book's most
important conclusion is that blame is inseparable from morality
itself--that any considerations that justify us in accepting a set
of moral principles must also call for the condemnation of those
who violate the principles. Properly understood, blame and morality
must stand or fall together.
Because blame has not received much sustained attention, the book
works its way toward its conclusions by first raising, and then
seeking to resolve, a series of conceptual and normative questions.
These questions include: How are blameworthy acts related to the
characters of the agents who perform them? Can agents deserve blame
for their bad traits as well as their bad acts? Is blame best
understood as a kind of action, a kind of belief, a kind of
feeling, a combination of these elements, or something different
entirely? What sort of normative concept is blameworthiness? How do
blame and blameworthiness--correlative notions--fit together?
Considered as a group, the questions yield a unified and
comprehensive theory of both blame and blameworthiness. In
developing that theory, the book both criticizes and draws
inspiration from the two most important previous treatments of its
topic: Hume's discussion of the relation between character and
blame and Strawson's landmark discussion of the "reactive
attitudes." However, the theory that emerges is neither Humean nor
Strawsonion: it is anew theory that seeks to do more justice than
its predecessors to the indispensable role that blame plays in our
moral lives.
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