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- Ethics of an Artificial Person : Lost Responsibility in Professio
- ISBN
- 9780804721035
- Subject Area
- Law, Business & Economics, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Ethics of an Artificial Person : Lost Responsibility in Professions and Organizations
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Business Ethics, General
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Series
- Stanford Series in Philosophy Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 7.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Artificial persons, as conceived by Hobbes, speak and act in the name of others, so that their actions become the actions of someone else, such as the lawyer who represents and acts for his or her client. In modern institutions we can find many other examples: among them politicians, brokers, real estate agents, bureaucrats, corporate executives, and military personnel. This book focuses on the moral issue of how we can and should locate responsibility for the actions of artificial persons. The author argues that conceiving this question in terms of roles, which may have their own moralities, blocks the kind of moral criticism we want to make, for there is a deep and intractable dissonance between role moralities and moral theory. This dissonance shows that we cannot deal with the moral issues piecemeal, profession by profession, as a role interpretation encourages us to do. Reverting to Hobbe's abstract idea of artificial persons vitiates the compartmentalization of problems. We can freely cross disciplinary boundaries, as well as the line between theory and practice, and allow practices to cast their light back on the theory and show us its deficiencies. In short, this approach reorients some much-discussed issues of professional, business, and military ethics and reveals them as variations on one deeply rooted theme. The author does not treat current institutions as final and unalterable. If these arrangements frustrate moral evaluation, she finds that an argument for change. To make intelligent changes, however, we need a clear view of the reasoning that makes them seem natural and inevitable. That is what this book attempts to do. In the process, the author also re-examines the concept of 'person'. Not all cultures put so much stress on the idea as Western - and particularly American - cultures do. If we wish to keep this emphasis, then here is another argument for change. If we want to keep our institutions as they are, then this is the price; it is a fairly clear choice.
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Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804721033
ISBN-13
9780804721035
eBay Product ID (ePID)
601341
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Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ethics of an Artificial Person : Lost Responsibility in Professions and Organizations
Publication Year
1992
Subject
Business Ethics, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Business & Economics, Philosophy
Series
Stanford Series in Philosophy Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
91-042508
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Yes
Lc Classification Number
K650
Table of Content
ContentsIntroductionONEFeigned and Fictional PersonsTWOWho Is Responsible?THREERolesFOURFractured AutonomyFIVECorporate PersonsSIXThe State as ServantSEVENPersonal InstrumentsEIGHTPersons in ContextNINEMaking ChangesIndex
Copyright Date
1992
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