This book addresses the following dilemma: if determinism is true, no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. But it is morally obligatory, right or wrong, for one to perform some action only if one has control over it. This dilemma can be evaded, because moral obligation is incompatible with determinism but not with indeterminism. Prof. Haji concludes by explaining that if no action is morally obligatory, right, or wrong, then our world would be morally impoverished.
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'Readers interested in recent debates not only in its main field but in virtue ethics, or on the relation of morality to practical reason, will find the work impressively up to date and incisively engaged.' Journal of Moral Philosophy
'rigorous and thought-provoking work, ... Haji's arguments are meticulous and intriguing and I found much in the work in which I agreed. ... Haji has addressed a problem that has not received sufficient attention. For whilst the literature on control and responsibility is huge, far less has been said about control and deontic morality.' Philosophical Writings
'rigorous and thought-provoking work, ... Haji's arguments are meticulous and intriguing and I found much in the work in which I agreed. ... Haji has addressed a problem that has not received sufficient attention. For whilst the literature on control and responsibility is huge, far less has been said about control and deontic morality.' Philosophical Writings
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This book addresses the following dilemma: If determinism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. But it is morally obligatory, right, or wrong, for one to perform some action only if one has control over it. This dilemma can be evaded, because moral obligation is incompatible with determinism but not with indeterminism. Prof. Haji concludes by explaining that if no action is morally obligatory, right, or wrong, then our world would be morally impoverished.
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This book develops a novel position in the recent debates about the freedom-conditions of moral responsibility. It is absolutely first-rate analytic work on free will, bringing popular recent compatibilist positions into serious doubt!
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Very many of us are convinced that on numerous occasions in our lives we perform actions that are morally right, or wrong, or obligatory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary deontic properties, deontic morality, deontic control, doxastic indeterminacy, actional pathway, primary deontic property, deontic appraisals, normative moral agent, obligation subversive, postsurgery jenny, suberogatory acts, plain overriding, blameworthiness without fault, overall moral justification, actional springs, remote obligation, decisive best judgment, modest libertarianism, agency presuppositions, one physically possible future, luck objection, actional elements, counterfactual intervener, deontic acts, overarching standpoint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Objective View, Overridingness Thesis, Consequence Argument, Epistemic Argument, Modest Meleian Libertarianism, Suppose Jones, Jones's A-ing, Harry Frankfurt New!
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Very many of us are convinced that on numerous occasions in our lives we perform actions that are morally right, or wrong, or obligatory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary deontic properties, deontic morality, deontic control, doxastic indeterminacy, actional pathway, primary deontic property, deontic appraisals, normative moral agent, obligation subversive, postsurgery jenny, suberogatory acts, plain overriding, blameworthiness without fault, overall moral justification, actional springs, remote obligation, decisive best judgment, modest libertarianism, agency presuppositions, one physically possible future, luck objection, actional elements, counterfactual intervener, deontic acts, overarching standpoint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Objective View, Overridingness Thesis, Consequence Argument, Epistemic Argument, Modest Meleian Libertarianism, Suppose Jones, Jones's A-ing, Harry Frankfurt New!
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- Free Will (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy) by Robert Kane on 5 pages
- Moral Dilemmas by Christopher W. Gowans on 5 pages
- Virtue Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Roger Crisp on 4 pages
- Moral Responsibility by John Martin Fischer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Significance of Free Will by Robert Kane in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Responsibility and Punishment (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy) by J. Angelo Corlett on page 21, page 45, and Back Matter
- Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Michael Smith in Front Matter
- Facts, Values, and Norms: Essays toward a Morality of Consequence (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Peter Railton in Front Matter
- A Physicalist Manifesto: Thoroughly Modern Materialism (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Andrew Melnyk in Back Matter
- Goodness and Justice: A Consequentialist Moral Theory (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Joseph Mendola in Front Matter
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