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Faculty of Arts: Faculty Colloquium (Term 2, 2017-18) – Professor Teresa Kuan on “The problem of moral luck, anthropologically speaking”

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日期:

2018年4月20日

時間:

下午4時至6時

地點:

馮景禧樓G24室(人文雅集)

講者:

關宜馨教授人類學系

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電話:3943 7107 (葉小姐)

講座摘要:

Why do people take personal blame for consequences for which they were not responsible? How do they come to see themselves as responsible for things they clearly could not have controlled? This talk explores answers to this question with reference to literature, cross-cultural research, and the work of the philosopher Bernard Williams. “Moral luck” and “agent-regret,” concepts developed by Williams, refer to human problems and experiences that may be universal. They relate to how blame and responsibility get distributed in the face of misfortune, and how, I will argue, the moral actor participates in the larger web of life that constitutes one’s history.