Total Collapse: The Case Against Responsibility and Morality

• Main Author: Kershnar, Stephen (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Religion and sociology.; Religion and Society.

This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do. In particular, it argues that what people do is neither right nor wrong and that they are neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for doing it. Morality and moral responsibility lie at the heart of...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• Part I; No Non-Consequentialist Morality
• 2 How Consent Works
• 3 Problems with Forfeiture
• 4 Against Proportionality: Proportionality is Not a Side-Constraint on Punishment
• 5 Rights Fail and Why This Explains the Other Failures
• Part II; Why There is no non-consequentialist morality
• 6 No responsibility (Responsibility and Foundationalism)
• 7 If There Were Responsibility, It Wouldn't Do Much Work (Responsibility and Internalism)
• 8 No Responsibility No Morality
• 9 Responsibility Revisionists and Skeptics
• 10 Appendix One: What is Moral Responsibility?
• 11 Appendix Two: God is Not Morally Responsible. .