Gregory Mellema is professor emeritus of philosophy at Calvin University. Among other books, he is the author of Sin (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021).
"In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema has made
an immensely important contribution to the discussion of group
morality and collective responsibility both within and far beyond
professional academic philosophy. His clearly written book will be
essential reading." —Fergus Kerr, Honorary Fellow, University of
Edinburgh
"Although the book is grounded in the account of complicity given
by Thomas Aquinas, it also engages contemporary literature on the
subject and finishes with an account of the ways this moral concept
intersects with American legal principles. . . . This is a
first-rate contribution to contemporary moral philosophy." —C.
Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities,
Baylor University
"With characteristic clarity and insight, Gregory Mellema
cautiously explores the concept of complicity and charts its
connections to related moral concepts. His discussion is precise
but accessible, and also addresses practical questions like how to
avoid becoming complicit in wrongdoing." —Scott A. Davison,
Morehead State University
"Anyone interested in such timely issues as the difference between
enabling harm, facilitating harm, and condoning harm (and how these
relate to legal categories such as aiding and abetting), or between
what we may morally expect from others and what they are morally
obliged to give us, will appreciate this carefully nuanced and
historically informed scholarship." —Edward Langerak, St. Olaf
College
“Gregory Mellema’s short and lively book on the ethics of
complicity, while decidedly a work of analytical philosophy, is
‘aimed at an audience that includes nonphilosophers’. . . . I found
much to inspire and intrigue as well as to provoke in these
passages, as indeed in the whole of the book.” —Notre Dame
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