{"id":148,"date":"2021-01-25T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/?p=148"},"modified":"2024-12-23T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:39:11","slug":"moral-responsibility-and-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/25\/moral-responsibility-and-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Responsibility And Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Moral Responsibility And Choice<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Discussion of moral responsibility has traditionally centred around actions and the possibility of alternative actions. In this short paper I take a different approach and focus on choices rather than actions. I argue that a person is morally responsible directly for their choices and only indirectly for resulting actions. This subtle shift helps to clarify many issues such as moral luck, thwarted choice and coercion.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: solid 1px black; padding: 4px; background-color: #ffffff; float: left;\"><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/papers\/MoralResponsibilityAndChoice.pdf\">Download Paper as pdf<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moral Responsibility And Choice Discussion of moral responsibility has traditionally centred around actions and the possibility of alternative actions. In this short paper I take a different approach and focus on choices rather than actions. I argue that a person is morally responsible directly for their choices and only indirectly for resulting actions. This subtle&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/25\/moral-responsibility-and-choice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moral Responsibility And Choice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,8,10],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-choice","tag-moral-responsibility","tag-pap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trevor-mendham.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}