Freedom and Agency: Two Critiques to Hard Determinism

Moral responsibility is the very foundation of all moral actions and social practices. Hard determinism, however, becomes a serious threat to morality by raising impossibility responsibility. This paper evaluates two criteria under which can be justified, reconstructs Strawson's basic argument hard provides solutions (one libertarian, one soft deterministic) challenge raised determinism. Finally, this points out that does not necessarily require freewill as its precondition.