Justifying Blame

Justifying Blame
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 9789004493421
ISBN-13 : 9004493425
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Book Synopsis Justifying Blame by : Maureen Sie

Download or read book Justifying Blame written by Maureen Sie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary, everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra-ordinary, “morally monstrous-like” crimes and weak-willed actions of some.

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