PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Wine Bottle
14 Nov 2018
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Action vs. event: reasons for actions, causes for events. We believe human beings act & have reasons to do so. Ie: asking for a pen to write out lecture notes: actions are done by rational agents, agents are morally responsible. Events: every event must have a cause, e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts (cid:449)ithout a (cid:272)ause si(cid:373)ply don"t happe(cid:374, we do(cid:374)"t hold this perso(cid:374) respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le. Cause effect: you must have the ability to draw causal inferences, you need to be able to know certain things. Ie: what will happen or more likely to happen if you do something: this is our ability to make predictions. Ie: likely outcome of dropping expensive wine bottle on the cement floor: there are degrees of expectations of your consequences. Justice: a balance of retribution rehabilitation, agent causation is not causation at all. Libertarianism: a least some of our actions are free, ie: getting married (a freely chosen action, anything which is free cannot be caused, therefore .
