PHL-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Best Interests, Moral Agency, Determinism
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These theses of causal determinism in general and. Not merely the claim that every event has cause, but the claim that every type of even _____ event e, has a type of _____ su cient cause c. If this is true, all events can be strictly predicted. If one knows their cause, than one can predict all events a"holbach (material monist: someone who believes there is no such thing as an independent mind) Every human action has a neurological cause. Issue 1: synthetic a priori proposition not logically necessary. P1: if s is of free will, then s"s behavior must not be caused/strictly predictable. P2: s"s behavior is not caused or strictly predictable. An agent is not something that causes behavior, yet, an event. A moral agent is any agent that is morally responsible for its behavior; that is capable of desiring what is morally good or evil, is capable of doing what is morally right or wrong.
