Suffering and Moral Responsibility

"""A wise and sensitive book...Mayerfeld has done a great service by drawing our attention to suffering. His arguments are careful and thoughtful, and this book should become the standard work on the topic."" --Joan C. Tronto, American Political Science Review ""...provocative and insightful....This book would work well in a graduate ethics course.""--Choice ""This book combines exacting, nuanced argumentation with a practical purpose that sets it apart from much work in philosophical ethics. At its best, it sharply focuses our attention on the experiences of both fictional and nonfictional individuals, variously placed along a hedonistic continuum, to illustrate the moral meaning of happiness and suffering.""--Review of Metaphysics ""A wise and sensitive book...Mayerfeld has done a great service by drawing our attention to suffering. His arguments are careful and thoughtful, and this book should become the standard work on the topic."" --Joan C. Tronto, American Political Science Review ""...provocative and insightful....This book would work well in a graduate ethics course.""--Choice ""This book combines exacting, nuanced argumentation with a practical purpose that sets it apart from much work in philosophical ethics. At its best, it sharply focuses our attention on the experiences of both fictional and nonfictional individuals, variously placed along a hedonistic continuum, to illustrate the moral meaning of happiness and suffering.""--Review of Metaphysics"