Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-g8jcs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-27T06:29:34.096Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Aristotle on Moral ResponsibilitySusan Sauvé Meyer Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, xii + 210 pp., $49.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Marguerite Deslauriers
Affiliation:
McGill University

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews/Comptes rendus
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1997

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1 Meyer cites Austin, Kenny, and Loening as those who doubt that Aristotle developed a theoretical account.

2 Meyer points out that Aristotle does not present the causal relation of voluntariness as a sufficient condition for moral responsibility, but only as a necessary condition.

3 For a different interpretation of Aristotle's attitude to “full” moral responsibility that is nonetheless in sympathy with some of Meyer's conclusions, see Broadie, Sarah, Ethics With Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 159–74.Google Scholar

4 Meyer cites in particular Williams, Bernard, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985).Google Scholar