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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Moral Luck"”.
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Moral Luck
<p>The problem of moral luck arises because of an apparent conflict between the luck that humans face, the pervasiveness of moral considerations in our lives, and the idea that moral responsibility requires a level of control that luck robs them of. The claim is that we cannot be governed by luck …
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Why unavoidable moral wrongdoing is impossible
… act in accordance with the all-things-considered morally right course of action, and yet nevertheless experience an emotion of self-directed distress at the fact that we have so acted. Moreover, we have the intuition that this emotion is rational or appropriate. Literature is scattered with such …
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Aristotle's Explanation for the Value of the External Goods
… chapters to assess Aristotle's position on moral luck--that is, how Aristotle regards his various categories of value as depending upon factors outside of the agent's control. My aim throughout is to consider how successfully Aristotle draws on his formal theory in order to explain the value …
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Does implicit bias threaten the semicompatibilist position on free will and responsibility?
… from one of its major threats, the problem of moral luck. I show that semicompatibilism successfully accommodates the phenomenon of implicit bias; agent responsibility for issuing behaviour is confirmed, in harmony with the presented models of implicit bias. A particular understanding of …
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The Puzzle of Victim-Anger
In this paper I raise a puzzle that I call 'the puzzle of victim-anger' that is parallel to Bernard William's puzzle of agent-regret. Suppose a truck driver is driving down the street when a child happens to walk in front of them. Through no fault of their own, the driver hits and kills the child. …
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Emergent grace: Paul Tillich, existential ontology, and the ethics of acceptance
… doctrine of grace in conversation with secular moral philosophy, highlighting its relevance to virtue cultivation within and beyond religious contexts. This is an unusual connection, admittedly, but properly understood, grace addresses key ethical issues such as moral development, moral …