Author: Kirkman, Robert

Source: Ethics, Place and Environment, Volume 11, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 17-32(16)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Ethical choice and action in the built environment are complicated by the fact that moral agents often get stuck as they pursue their goals. A common way of getting stuck has its roots in human cognition: the failure of moral imagination, which shows most clearly when moral agents stand on either side of a sharp cultural divide, like the traditional divide between city and suburb. Being stuck is akin to bad moral luck: it is a situation beyond the control of the moral agent for which that agent might nevertheless be held responsible.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13668790802048399

Affiliations: 1: School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Publication date: 2008-03-01

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