Praise and Blame (ebook)

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"The richness of this work cannot be comprehended in one reading. Whether the reader agrees or not with the author, one has much to learn from the profundity of Robinson's insight into the framing of moral judgment. The reader comes away feeling that this book is a prolegomenon to an expanded version of one or more themes treated within these pages."--Jude P. Dougherty, Review of Metaphysics

"This book is a significant contribution to the analytic study of ethics, to the history of ethics, and to the growing field of philosophical psychology. It also offers a hope of common ground between those who study ethics in the analytic way and those who approach it in a way that makes contact with traditional metaphysical outlooks such as that of Aristotle. All serious writers in ethics will want to test their own views in the light of what Robinson has to say. The book should be in all college and university libraries; but it is, I think, so well written that it will attract many nonacademic readers who are interested in ethics. Robinson's prose is correct, clear, supple, elegant, and witty; if only all philosophers could write as well as this unusual psychologist/philosopher/classicist!"--Edward Pols, Bowdoin College

"Praise and Blame is a terrific book that will be read with pleasure and profit by scholars in ethics, political theory, law, and related fields. It will appeal both to specialists and to sophisticated nonspecialists. People who are looking for an original take on perennial philosophical questions won't be disappointed. At the same time, readers who are interested in learning what the best classical and contemporary thinkers have had to say about the freedom of the will and its relationship to the moral evaluation of human conduct will find the book more than instructive."--Robert P. George, Princeton University0Acknowledgments viii
Preface ix
CHAPTER 1: Defining the Subject 1
CHAPTER 2: Constitutive Luck: On Being Determined 47
CHAPTER 3: Moral Luck, Morality, and the Fates 108
CHAPTER 4: Ignorance, Unconsciousness, and Responsibility 146
CHAPTER 5: Punishment and Forgiveness 179
Notes 205
Index 221