PHIL-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Incompatibilism, Compatibilism
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Or if a causal chain led to the act, and was out of your control, then you are not responsible. In legal cases someone can be found innocent when not acting with intent (out of free will). Historically been assessed on the free will versus autonomy debate. Had moral repercussions: if a person lacked free will (ie via determinism) then the action is not morally reprehensible. Thus the idea of responsibility defines whether a bad act is morally wrong. Hence why penalty for 1st degree and manslaughter charges differ in penalty. Whenever some action is performed,when describing responsibility we define by the ability to choose between options (ie having 2 or more options available) Historically the notion of free will has been problematic: 1. The deterministic view leaves no room for genuine choice (free will becomes an illusion) Epistemically, it may look as though there are any number of options, that we can know our.
