PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Berit Brogaard, Moral Luck
4 Aug 2013
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Kant: what counts as to what you do the right thing is your intentions, not how they actually turn out. Judging people based on factors they they did not intend. The things you value are of things you have no control of. We u do something bad its bad and it re ects badly on you. Nagel:base it on intensions makes them less responsible. We judge the individual, their character; not just their experiences. External perspective is the boundary of autonomy. Something worth while has to have a public standard of success. If i cant demonstrate an action then it undermines the public character of what im doing. Unless u can get rid of contingency then u must have luck. When u act when you"re virtuous it affects who you are, but you must be lucky. If the external environment is bad, doesn"t matter how lucky you are, you will get crushed.
