Sharing Responsibility

Author/Contributor(s):	May, Larry
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	06/01/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Are individuals responsible for the consequences of actions taken by their community? What about their community's inaction or its attitudes? In this innovative book, Larry May departs from the traditional Western view that moral responsibility is limited to the consequences of overt individual action. Drawing on the insights of Arendt, Jaspers, and Sartre, he argues that even when individuals are not direct participants, they share responsibility for various harms perpetrated by their communities.