Pushing the Margins of Responsibility: Lessons from Parks’ Somnambulistic Killing

Sio, Filippo Santoni de; Nucci, Ezio Di

doi:10.1007/s12152-017-9311-1

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“…What is also emblematic is that legal systems in Western democracies are very much based on ongoing jurisprudence. Over time judges have constantly adjusted their assessments because of changed moral and empirical insights about what is to be seen as an 'individual person', an 'intention', or a 'good reason' [53,54]. Indeed, ethical starting points have changed over time, think, for instance, how until the eighteenth century animals had been put on trial, or how progress in criminology and psychology have led to revised accounts of personhood and agency.…”

Section: The Good Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

The Good Life and Climate Adaptation

Pesch

2022

Sustainability

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The need to adapt to climate change brings about moral concerns that according to ‘eco-centric’ critiques cannot be resolved by modernist ethics, as this takes humans as the only beings capable of intentionality and rationality. However, if intentionality and rationality are reconsidered as ‘counterfactual hypotheses’ it becomes possible to align modernist ethics with the eco-centric approaches. These counterfactual hypotheses guide the development of institutions, so as to allow the pursuit of a ‘good life’. This mean that society should be organized as if humans are intentional and, following Habermas’s idea of ‘communicative rationality’, as if humans are capable of collective deliberation. Given the ecological challenges, the question becomes how to give ecological concerns a voice in deliberative processes.

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Section: The Good Lifementioning

confidence: 99%