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Moral responsibility

Being responsible is being the right person to praise or blame for what you did. Aristotle's two tests: we don't blame someone who was forced, or who didn't know what they were doing. Whether responsibility also needs a free will that could have done otherwise is still argued about.

Depth 1 · Foundation

You can use Aristotle's two tests for blame, and give the two answers to whether responsibility needs free will.

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    You can use Aristotle's two tests for blame, and give the two answers to whether responsibility needs free will.

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    Free will, depth 2Whether we can be blamed depends on what free will is.

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  6. 6CausationDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
  7. 7DeterminismDepth 1 · Foundation · Metaphysics
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