The aim of this note is to explore a neglected argument for skepticism about moral responsibility. The skeptic I have in mind is not a ... So our disinclination to blame the ancient slaveholder after we have taken his non-culpable moral ignorance into account is not just a reflection of the relativism of distance.
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I then wish to give a full account of Aristotle's view of moral responsibility, primarily focussing on moral responsibility under conditions of ignorance and on evil action when the good is known.
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This book, together with Zimmermann's paper "Moral. Responsibility and Ignorance", have been most helpful for the present discussion. ...
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Culpable Ignorance and Moral Responsibility: A Reply to FitzPatrick*. Neil Levy. In the course of “Moral Responsibility and Normative Ignorance: Answering a ...
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Lack of knowledge about a thing in a being capable of knowing ... Vincible ignorance, being in some way voluntary, does not permit a man to escape responsibility for the moral deformity of his deeds; he is held to be guilty and in general the more guilty in proportion as his ignorance is more voluntary.
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“Philosophical doubts about moral responsibility,” writes William FitzPatrick, “have typically been rooted in worries about free agency in the face of causal determinism, culminating in familiar metaphysical arguments against the very possibility of ... Tags: Akrasia, Culpable ignorance, Moral responsibility...
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No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood - Despair.com ... So we come to the question of responsibility. We've promised to deal with the ethics of Wikipedia before, and it's no longer possible to ignore the elephant in the room, so we must.
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As noted above, these senses (and others identified by individual authors as needed) provide a framework for exploring computers and moral responsibility. They enable us to analyze in retrospect who is responsible for the consequences of computer use (e.g., Which humans played a causal role?
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Nevertheless, he argues that health care is not a "right," but rather a "moral responsibility for an industrialized country."; He begins his post provocatively: "Health care is not a right. ... I know this will piss off" many readers, "but I wanted to come out and say it for the record.
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First, as I argue in the book, it’s important to realise that prevailing beliefs about the moral responsibility to donate are themselves in large part the outcome of a long-term effort by the transplant community to create a viable “cultural account” of donation.
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