Presentation des travaux recents consacres au theme de la responsabilite morale et de ses conditions d'application selon P. F. Strawson, R. J. Wallace, M. Oshana, G. Watson. Revisant la conception traditionnelle de l'association de la responsabilite avec le principe des possibilites alternatives et les exemples de type-Frankfurt selon C. Ginet, P. Van Inwagen, R. Kane, T. O'Connor et R. Clarke, l'A. examine les approches libertaristes de l'indeterminisme et du modele probabiliste, d'une part, et les confronte a l'autre approche de la responsabilite morale fondee sur l'idee de sequence actuelle et sur l'idee de controle chez M. Bratman, M. Ravizza et J. M. Fischer, d'autre part, concluant a une position semi-compatibiliste supercompatibiliste

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Recent Work on Moral Responsibility

The development of personal autonomy throughout cultures

The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers

This is a pre-print version of an article published in Political Studies 49(4)2001: 749-766. ‘The definitive version is available at http://www.blackwellsynergy.com/links/doi/10.1111%2F1467-9248.00340

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Guilty Subjects and Political Responsibility: Arendt, Jaspers and the Resonance of the ‘German Question’ in Politics of Reconciliation

Recent work suggests that negative moral judgements of sexual activities are informed by disgust and anger. A correlational study (N=62) and an experiment (N=176) examined the specific antecedents that elicit these distinct, though correlated, moral emotions. Participants in Study 1 rated their emotional reactions to, and judgements of, 10 sexual scenarios. Across scenarios, judgements of abnormality predicted disgust independent of anger, and judgements of harm/rights violation predicted anger independent of disgust. Study 2 replicated these results in an experimental design. Participants rated their emotions and judgements in response to behaviours that varied in degree of potential sexual morality violation (non-sexual, heterosexual, homosexual) and rights violation (no harm, indirect harm, direct harm). Judgement of rights violation mediated the effects of harm on anger. Judgements of abnormality, but not other antecedents proposed to elicit moral disgust, mediated the effects of sexual immorality on disgust.

Emotions in sexual morality: testing the separate elicitors of anger and disgust.

Guilt and Its Vicissitudes-Judith M. Hughes 2007-11-21 How do psychoanalysts explain human morality? Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality focuses on the way Melanie Klein and successive generations of her followers pursued and deepened Freud's project of explaining man's moral sense as a wholly natural phenomenon. With the introduction of the superego, Freud laid claim to the study of moral development as part of the psychoanalytic enterprise. At the same time he reconceptualized guilt: he thought of it not only as conscious, but as unconscious as well, and it was the unconscious sense of guilt that became a particular concern of the discipline he was founding. As Klein saw it, his work merely pointed the way. Judith M. Hughes argues that Klein and contemporary Kleinians went on to provide a more consistent and comprehensive psychological account of moral development. Hughes shows how Klein and her followers came to appreciate that moral and cognitive questions are complexly interwoven and makes clear how this complexity prompted them to extend the range of their theory. Hughes demonstrates both a detailed knowledge of the major figures in post-war British psychoanalysis, and a keen sensitivity to the way clinical experience informed theory-building. She writes with vigor and grace, not only about Freud and Klein, but also about such key thinkers as Riviere, Isaacs, Heimann, Segal, Bion and Joseph. Guilt and Its Vicissitudes speaks to those concerned with the clinical application of psychoanalytic theory and to those interested in the contribution psychoanalysis makes to understanding questions of human morality.

R. G. Frey

Papers

ON GUILT AND INNOCENCE: Essays in Legal Philosophy and Moral Psychology

Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law

Morality and the self

Violence For Equality: Inquiries in Political Philosophy