Deontic Morality and Control

Klappentext This book analyses whether determinism or indeterminism is compatible with moral obligation, right or wrong. Zusammenfassung If either determinism or indeterminism is true! then no one has control over their actions. But it is morally obligatory! right or wrong! to perform some action only if one has control over it. This dilemma can be evaded! because moral obligation is incompatible with determinism but not with indeterminism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Determinism and Deontic Morality: 2. Obligation and control; 3. Frankfurt-type cases and deontic control; 4. Control requirements of deontic anchors: some objections; 5. Determinism and deontic anchors; Part II. Indeterminism and Deontic Morality: 6. Transition: from determinism to indeterminism; 7. Robust modest R-libertarianism and luck; 8. Robust model R-libertarianism and deontic anchors; Part III. Consequences of Being Deprived of Deontic Anchors: 9. The significance of the possibility of being without deontic anchors; 10. Determinism, deontic anchors and appraisability; 11. Virtue ethics without metaphysical freedom; 12. On the connection between morality's dethronement and deontic anchors; 13. Concluding remarks; Notes; Glossary and list of principles; References; Index.

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• Authors: Ishtiyaque Haji, Ishtiyaque (University of Minnesota) Haji
• Assisted by: Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521813877
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81387-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works