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Relative Justice

Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility

  • Hardback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • 14.8 x 21.9 x 2.8 cm

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For readers intrigued by culture and free will

Shows how culture affects our view of justice

Helps you rethink what it means to be excused

A thought-provoking study that challenges your assumptions about free will and cultural responsibility.

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When can we be morally responsible for our behavior? Is it fair to blame people for actions that are determined by heredity and environment? Can we be responsible for the actions of relatives or members of our community? In this provocative book, Tamler Sommers concludes that there are no objectively correct answers to these questions. Drawing on research in anthropology, psychology, and a host of other disciplines, Sommers argues that cross-cultural variation raises serious problems for theories that propose universally applicable conditions for moral responsibility. He then develops a new way of thinking about responsibility that takes cultural diversity into account. Relative Justice is a novel and accessible contribution to the ancient debate over free will and moral responsibility. Sommers provides a thorough examination of the methodology employed by contemporary philosophers in the debate and a challenge to Western assumptions about individual autonomy and its connection to moral desert.

  • Title

    Relative Justice

  • Author

    Tamler Sommers

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Princeton University Press

  • Published

    December 2011

  • Weight

    432g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    14.8 x 21.9 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780691139937

  • ISBN-10

    0691139938

  • Eden Code

    4578285