Responsibility and Freedom – The Ethical Realm of RRI

Acknowledgments vii
<p>Foreword ix</p>
<p>Introduction xvii</p>
<p>Chapter 1. Responsible Research and Innovation: A New Framework for an Old Controversy 1</p>
<p>Chapter 2. Responsibility: a Modern Concept 29</p>
<p>2.1. The modern formation of responsibility 29</p>
<p>2.2. Decoupling law and morality 37</p>
<p>2.3. The political implications of responsibility 58</p>
<p>2.4. Responsibility as an overarching concept 70</p>
<p>Chapter 3. Development of Freedom 79</p>
<p>3.1. The centrality of freedom 79</p>
<p>3.2. Legal freedom 82</p>
<p>3.3. Moral freedom 86</p>
<p>3.4. Ethical freedom 97</p>
<p>Chapter 4. An Ethical Perspective on Responsibility and Freedom 111</p>
<p>4.1. Ethics and morality 116</p>
<p>4.2. Responsibility and freedom: an ethical relation 123</p>
<p>Chapter 5. Framework for the Ethical Assessment of RRI 143</p>
<p>5.1. Historical overcoming of RRI 146</p>
<p>Conclusion 169</p>
<p>Bibliography 177</p>
<p>Index 189</p>