PHIL 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Harry Frankfurt
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According to this revised principle of alternate possibilities, then, i should not be morally responsible for my actions. Frankfurt tries to solve this problem by making a distinction between doing something only because of some deterministic causal influence, and doing something because of other reasons (found in my thoughts and desires). His final revised principle of alternate possibilities, then, looks like this: (cid:498)a person is not morally responsible for what he has done if he did it only because he could not have done otherwise. (cid:499) We seem to have a more-or-less clear idea about who is a person and who is not (most adult humans are, infants and animals are not) But it is hard to find a non-arbitrary definition that properly identifies only this group. A) saying that a person is a living being that is conscious and has some corporeal characteristics: saying that a person is any member of the human race.