UID:
almahu_9948174421002882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780190050887 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This work argues for the prima facie plausibility of the surprising and paradoxical conclusion that there are no moral obligations regardless of whether determinism is true. In the form of a dilemma, the primary argument for this skeptical conclusion presupposes that obligation requires freedom. A minimal number of credible principles entail that this is the freedom both to do, and to refrain from doing, what is obligatory. On the deterministic horn of the dilemma, since determinism eliminates freedom to do otherwise, it imperils moral obligation. On the indeterministic horn, pertinent actions are too luck-infected to qualify as obligations. Hence, there are no moral obligations. The text's principal goal is to develop the obligation dilemma as powerfully and clearly as possible to inspire sustained philosophical work to solve it (assuming that it can be solved).
Note:
Also issued in print: 2019.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190050856
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
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