Constitutive Moral Luck and Strawson's Argument for the Impossibility of Moral Responsibility

The Moral of Moral Luck

Moral Luck

The good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes or because of its adequacy to achieve some proposed end; it is good only because of its willing, i.e., it is good of itself And, regarded for itself, it is to be esteemed incomparably higher than anything which could be brought about by it in favor of any inclination or even of the sum total of all inclinations. Even if it sho...

A problem for moral luck

The present paper poses a new problem for moral luck. Defenders of moral luck uncritically rely on a broader theory of luck known as the control theory or the lack of control theory. However, there are are two other analyses of luck in the literature that dominate discussion in epistemology, namely the probability and modal theories. However, moral luck is nonexistent under the probability and ...

Defending psychopathy: an argument from values and moral responsibility.

How psychopaths and their capacity for moral action are viewed is not only philosophically interesting but is also important and relevant for policy. The philosophical discussion of psychopathy has focussed upon the psychological faculties that are prerequisites for moral responsibility and empirical findings regarding psychopathy that are relevant to philosophical accounts of moral understandi...

Moral Argument

What a “Mormon” thinks of Christ By Tim Dorius I recently read with interest the November article “Is Mormonism Christian?” in which the author of this article states “Mormonism is not Christian.” After reading this, I had the opportunity to speak with Rick Thomas, Editor of Beacon OU, who invited me to respond with my own article. I thank the Beacon for the opportunity to write this article. I...