Responsibility

Barbara Darling-Smith is assistant professor of religion at Wheaton College.

This book is an eloquent collection of essays by some of our leading philosophers and ethicists. They enable us to reenvision responsibility and responsiveness amidst our modern challenges of injustice and environmental degradation. There is a fresh perspective here that situates humans in interdependent relation to other humans and to the Earth community at large.

• Part 1 Responsibility and SelfhoodChapter 2 Responsible FictionsChapter 3 Responsibility Without a SelfChapter 4 The Way is Made in the Walking: Responsibility as Relational VirtuosityChapter 5 Where Art Thou? Biblical Perspectives on ResponsibilityPart 6 Responsible Roles Toward Other Human BeingsChapter 7 Moral Responsibility in a Democratic SocietyChapter 8 Am I My Brother's Keeper? An Aristotelian Take on Responsibility for OthersChapter 9 Tasteless Historical Stories: An Historical Theologian's REsponsibility to Past and PresentChapter 10 Balancing Medicine's Moral Ledger: Realigning Trust and ResponsibilityChapter 11 Responsibilities of Corporations: Managing Morally and ProfitablyPart 12 Responsibility Toward Nonhuman Beings and the EarthChapter 13 Towards an Art of DwellingChapter 14 Ecological and Social Responsibility: The Making of the Earth Charter