PHIL 10100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Stuart Mill, Virtue Ethics, Moral Relativism
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Make sure you"re familiar with all of these concepts and arguments, and able to name the philosopher or philosophers with whom they were associated in class. Moral responsibility: it is what makes an agent a candidate for certain kinds of attitudes, ex. Resentment, respect, gratitude, indignation, or for certain kinds of actions, ex. Can be a candidate for these things even if what you did was morally neutral. For an agent to be responsible for an action the agent must have reasons for having performed the action. Reasons-responsive: the agent has a reason for the action, the agent would have acted otherwise if it weren"t for the reason. Strong reasons-responsiveness not necessary for moral responsibility. Categorical imperative: one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself apart from its nature to a further end. A rule that tells you what to do no matter what.
