PHL 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Moral Responsibility, Implicit Stereotype, Harry Frankfurt
8 Nov 2018
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Mark alfonso, responsibility: the distinction between causal responsibility, legal responsibility, and moral responsibility. Causal responsibility is being responsible because you are the cause. Legal responsibility is culpability for breaking the law. You can be morally culpable but not legally. For example: killing someone but not going to jail. Moral responsibility is having legal culpability but not moral. You can be legally culpable without being morally. For example: rosa parks breaking the law and not giving up her seat for a white person- broke the law, but did not break morals: what we referred to as the standing presumption on culpability. For normal adults, there"s a standing presumption that when someone does something (morally) wrong, they are culpable-to blame- for that wrong: when that standing presumption is defeated. It is undermined when there is a valid excuse: the two broad types of excuses we talked about in class, using examples to illustrate.
