| Deontic Morality and Control Contributor(s): Haji, Ishtiyaque (Author), Sosa, Ernest (Editor), Dancy, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521813875 ISBN-13: 9780521813877 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism - Philosophy | Logic |
| Dewey: 123.5 |
| LCCN: 2001043681 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.35 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book addresses the following dilemma: if determinism is true, no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. But it is morally obligatory, right or wrong, for one to perform some action only if one has control over it. This dilemma can be evaded, because moral obligation is incompatible with determinism but not with indeterminism. Prof. Haji concludes by explaining that if no action is morally obligatory, right, or wrong, then our world would be morally impoverished. |