Most of us spend a fair amount of time trying to avoid
responsibility. That's not too astounding. What is surprising, says
Peter French, is that we tend to dodge the good variety as well as
the bad.
"The problem for most of us, excepting moral masochists, is that
responsibility does get doled," he writes. "The strategy is either
not to be in the receiving line or to find a way to get as little
dumped on one's plate as possible, to trade off to others as much
as one can. Consequently, the responsibility barter game is
probably the most common experience ordinary people have with
morality."
In "Responsibility Matters," French investigates a variety of
matters relating to responsibility-from theoretical aspects and
elements of the concept of responsibility to specific areas of
application and general issues in moral theory. Unlike Kant and
others who see responsibility as a necessary presupposition of
practical life, he believes it is a set of practices that we use to
describe and understand individual and social behavior.
Using examples from literature, film, and current events as well
as traditional philosophical literature, he raises questions about
responsibility in political, environmental, legal, medical,
corporate, and military justice matters. He also covers other
issues, including fate, innocence, power, control, and individual
and group responsibility.
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