TY - BOOK ID - 78644021 TI - Karman AU - Agamben, Giorgio AU - Kotsko, Adam PY - 2018 SN - 1503605833 9781503605831 9781503602144 9781503605824 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Law and ethics. KW - Law KW - Free will and determinism. KW - Act (Philosophy) KW - Responsibility. KW - Accountability KW - Moral responsibility KW - Obligation KW - Ethics KW - Supererogation KW - Action (Philosophy) KW - Agent (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Compatibilism KW - Determinism and free will KW - Determinism and indeterminism KW - Free agency KW - Freedom and determinism KW - Freedom of the will KW - Indeterminism KW - Liberty of the will KW - Determinism (Philosophy) KW - Jurisprudence KW - Ethics and law KW - Law and morals KW - Morals and law KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78644021 AB - What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search for a way out of this destructive paradigm, Agamben not only draws on minority opinions within the Western tradition but engages at length with Buddhist texts and concepts for the first time. In sum, Karman deepens and rearticulates some of Agamben's core insights while breaking significant new ground. ER -