PHIL 120W Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mpra Language, Inta, Npr
20 Jun 2016
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Kant: good/bad luck should not influence our moral judgment of a person and his actions, nor his moral assessment of himself. On a note of bad will: whether it accomplishes its evil purposes is morally irrelevant. Course of action that would be condemned if it had a bad outcome cannot be vindicated if by luck it turns out well. It is intuitively plausible that people cannot be morally assessed for what is not their fault, or for what is due to factors beyond their control. However, during the evaluating of things: when we blame someone for his actions, we are not merely saying it is bad that they happened or bad that hell exists. We are judging the person, saying he is bad. Examples by kant: whether we succeed/fail in what we try to do nearly always depends to some extent on factors beyond our control.
