Climate change and individual responsibility : agency, moral disengagement and the motivational gap /: agency, moral disengagement and the motivational gap. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Wouter Peeters, Andries De Smet, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx.
• Authors: Peeters, Wouter; Smet, Andries De; Diependaele, Lisa; Sterckx, Sigrid
• Contents: 1. Introduction 1.1. Is Someone Responsible? 1.2. Overview 2. Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Responsibility 2.1. Human Rights Threatened by Climate Change 2.2. Assigning Remedial Responsibility for Tackling Climate Change 2.3. Individual Responsibility and Moral Agency 3. The Phenomenology of Agency in Climate Change 3.1. First Feature: the Primacy of Acts Over Omissions 3.2. Second Feature: the Primacy of Near Effects Over Remote Effects 3.3. Third Feature: the Primacy of Individual Effects Over Group Effects 4. Understanding the Motivational Gap 4.1. The Origins of Common-sense Morality and the Theoretical Storm 4.2. Competing Motives Influenced by the Dominant Social Paradigm 4.3. The Role of the Restrictive Conception of Individual Responsibility and Moral Disengagement 5. Addressing the Motivational Gap and Tackling Moral Disengagement 5.1. Increasing Moral Motivation 5.2. Addressing the Underlying Reasons for Moral Disengagement 5.3. Tackling the Propensity for Moral Disengagement 6. Conclusion.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.70525; Environmental protection -- Citizen participation; Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental ethics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137464514; 9781137464507
• Related ISBNs: 9781137464491
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