PHIL 1F90 Study Guide - Final Guide: Libertine, Moral Agency, Moral Responsibility

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

Premises of determination: there is a universal ancestral causation, if something is caused, it cannot be free, there is no free will. Pressure from the inside: comes from within us but it is out of our control. We are aware of what we are doing but not in control. We do not hold an irrational person morally responsible. Must have the ability to draw causal inferances. Need to be able to know certain things: must be able to know what is likely to happen if you do something. Libertinism: at least some of our actions are free, anything which is free cannot be caused, universal causation is not true. A free act does not have a cause. A free action with no cause comes from; will, volition, reason, desire. If you cannot choose otherwise, even if you chose the outcome, it was not free.