PHIL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Compatibilism, Pessimism
15 Sep 2020
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Responses (redefining true responsibility": compatibilism, one can be free and morally responsible even if determinism is true (leibniz) Freedom is just being able to act in accordance to your desires. Morally responsible for acts you freely choose. Libertarianism: we are free and responsible agents, and determinism is false. Somehow we are ultimately the causal root of ourselves. Free will consists of the ability to override preferences and desires. Either going to end up with randomness or infinite regret. Even if you are aware of what you are doing, you may not be doing it freely. Optimism: reactive vs. objective attitudes (main focus) Wants to ground notion of responsibility - ground it in actual practices: considerations that remove resentment, reactive attitudes and determinism, strawson on freedom. Pessimist: if determinism is true, then concepts and moral obligation and responsibility doesn"t apply, moral practices are unjustified. Optimist: the truth of determinism does not undermine our moral concepts and practices.
