ATS1835 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Susan R. Wolf, Moral Agency, Moral Responsibility
24 Mar 2020
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Jones"s brain processes should jones be about to choose b. jones is unaware of black"s presence and black waits to see how jones will choose on her own, as black will intervene only if he needs to. If jojo and the embezzler aren"t morally responsible then none of us are responsible for our actions: all our deepest selves are the products of genes and upbringing just as jojo"s or the. Embezzler"s is: we can never gain ultimate power or control over who we are, but maybe we don"t need to, not all things necessary for freedom and responsibility must be types of power or control. We may need simply to be a certain way, even though it is not within our power to determine whether we are that way or not. To be sane it know what one is doing and to have beliefs that correctly correspond to the way the world is including how things are normatively.
