Toward a New (Old) Theory of Responsibility: Moving beyond Accountability

• Main Author: Koehn, Daryl (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics,
• Subjects: Business ethics.; Ethics.; Modern philosophy.; Business Ethics.; Moral Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.

This book offers a much needed overview of the neglected notion of responsibility. Instead of offering vague talk about "individual responsibility" or "corporate responsibility," Daryl Koehn examines in detail four accounts of responsibility, taking care to specify what responsib...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Why We Need a New (Old) Idea of Responsibility
• Chapter 2. Intentional Agency Responsibility in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition
• Chapter 3. Jonasian Ontological Responsibility
• Chapter 4. Arendtian Communicative Responsibility
• Chapter 5. Socratic Dialogical Responsibility
• Chapter 6. Conclusion.