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Personal Responsibility: Why It Matters

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Description for Personal Responsibility: Why It Matters Paperback. 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. This book shows how philosophy can contribute to public democratic debate on pressing issues of personal responsibility. Series: Think Now. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 258.
Individual responsibility is an issue at the heart of public debates surrounding justice today - this book explores the philosophical implications of this hugely topical contemporary debate. Personal 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Think Now
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847063991
SKU
V9781847063991
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About Dr Alexander Brown
Alexander Brown is a Teaching Fellow in Political Theory at the School of Public Policy, University College London, UK. He is the author of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Equality (Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan).

Reviews for Personal Responsibility: Why It Matters
This important and timely book tackles one of the central issues in the relationship between the state and the individual: what is the proper scope of personal responsibility and how can it be supported through social arrangements? Responses to this question have widespread implications for welfare policy, criminal justice and healthcare and map one of the key fault lines in ... Read more

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