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Mapping responsibility : explorations in mind, law, myth, and culture / Herbert Fingarette ; with a foreword by Robert C. Solomon.

Title
Mapping responsibility : explorations in mind, law, myth, and culture / Herbert Fingarette ; with a foreword by Robert C. Solomon.
Author
Fingarette, Herbert.
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2004.

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Description
xii, 174 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
Responsibility
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-166) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Accepting responsibility -- Guilt and responsibility -- Orestes' task -- Retributive punishment -- Alcoholism and legal responsibility -- The concept of mental disorder -- Does coercion negate responsibility? -- Self-deception -- The Hindu perspective : the Bhagavad Gita -- The Confucian perspective : the self -- Responsibility and indeterminism -- Suffering -- Out of the whirlwind : the Book of Job.
ISBN
081269564X (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004007150
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library