PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Compatibilism, Pessimism, Fatalism
10 Apr 2019
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Strawson asserts both are wrong; he focuses on the psychology of interpersonal interactions: we care about the intentions or attitudes that drive people"s actions towards us, and we in turn have "reactive attitudes" to those intentions, reactive attitudes. In this case we treat the agent as we do others, but we forgive the action: resentment evaporates! I don"t decide to stop feeling resentment, i just automatically do: this notion may be absorbed like language (idea of fairness develops early on!) Jan. 23: there was something wrong with the agent, circumstances weren"t normal she was not herself. Stole bread because children were starving: we just feel less like blaming them! She was mentally disordered or morally undeveloped: brain tumour: if we found out someone who did something bad had a brain tumour we realize they couldn"t help it so our resentment will dissipate. What if they were forced to drink: basic facts of our psychology.
