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Personal Responsibility: Why it Matters

Personal Responsibility: Why it Matters Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Alexander Brown

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Hardback. New. 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.
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  • Title Personal Responsibility: Why it Matters
  • Author Alexander Brown
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Date 2009-11-30
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781847063984
  • ISBN 9781847063984 / 1847063985
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Responsibility
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009006847
  • Dewey Decimal Code 170

From the publisher

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 philosophy to deal with real world problems and shows how philosophy can contribute to public democratic debate on pressing issues of personal responsibility. Articulate, provocative, and stimulating, this timely book will make a significant contribution to one of the most important debates of our time.

About the author

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).