Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business, and Healthcare - Softcover

Thompson, Dennis F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521547229 ISBN 13: 9780521547222

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. Thompson suggests that we stop thinking about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability).

About this title

Book Description:

In this important collection of essays Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it more in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability).

About the Author:

Dennis F. Thompson is Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521547229
• ISBN 13: 9780521547222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360