Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we
have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than
one way, and does it matter to morality whether we do? Pink argues
that what matters to morality is not in fact the freedom to do
otherwise, but something more primitive - a basic capacity or power to
determine for ourselves what we do. This capacity might or might not
take the form of a freedom to act in more than one way, and it might
or might not be compatible with causal determinism. What really
matters to morality is that it is we who determine what we do. What we
do must not simply be a function of powers or capacities for which we
are not responsible, or a matter of mere chance. At the heart of moral
responsibility is a distinctive form of power that is quite unlike
ordinary causation - a power by which we determine outcomes in a way
quite differently from the way ordinary causes determine outcomes.
Pink examines how this power is involved in action, and how the nature
of action permits the operation of such a power to determine it.
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The Ethics of Action, Volume 1
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ISBN
9780192508065
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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