Responsibility: are we really responsible for our actions?
Title: Responsibility: are we really responsible for our actions?
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1594 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Responsibility: are we really responsible for our actions?
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1594 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Have you ever wondered if the decision that you have just made was the best possible decision for you to make? An agent's relationship between responsibility and his decisions in life are affected by the alternative choices that were not taken as well as the choices that were made. Thomas Nagel believes that an agent's autonomy is always being threatened by the possibility of a viewpoint that is more objective than his own. His view
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we must consider all that is before us in order to make the best possible choice. We will be held responsible for the decisions we make and for the decisions we did not make.
Works Cited
Ginet, Carl. "Can the Will be Caused?" Philosophical Review 71 (1962): 49-55.
Reprinted in New Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl, W. Sellars
and K. Lehrer (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972).
Nagel, Thomas. "The View from Nowhere." Cambridge University Press. (1979).
pp.110-137