02548nam 2200565 450 991081986400332120230721013602.01-4411-5490-61-282-87379-297866128737991-4411-2891-3(CKB)2670000000056063(EBL)601659(OCoLC)676697179(MiAaPQ)EBC601659(MiAaPQ)EBC5309514(MiAaPQ)EBC3003004(MiAaPQ)EBC6163579(Au-PeEL)EBL3003004(OCoLC)928191433(EXLCZ)99267000000005606320200722d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPersonal responsibility why it matters /Alexander BrownLondon, England :Bloomsbury,[2009]©20091 online resource (225 p.)Think nowDescription based upon print version of record.1-84706-398-5 1-84706-399-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: What is Personal Responsibility?; Chapter 3: What Do Philosophers Think? Part I; Chapter 4: What Do Philosophers Think? Part II; Chapter 5: What Do Politicians Think?; Chapter 6: What Do Ordinary People Think?; Chapter 7: Four Contemporary Issues in Focus; Chapter 8: So How Do We Decide?; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexPersonal responsibility is now very much on the political agenda. But what is personal responsibility? Why do we care about it? And what, if anything, should governments do to promote it?. This book explores the idea that individuals bear a special responsibility for the success or failure of their own lives looking at philosophical theories, political ideologies and public opinion on the subject. Alexander Brown lends support to a recent move in political philosophy to deal with real world problems and shows how philosophy can contribute to public democratic debate on pressing issues of persoThink now.ResponsibilityResponsibility.170Brown Alexander1974 December 27-962745MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819864003321Personal responsibility4019207UNINA