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Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
The Buck Stops — Where?. Living without Ultimate Moral Responsibility: "There is an undeniable human tendency to see ourselves as free and morally
responsible beings. But there's a problem. We also believe-most of us
anyhow-that our environment and our heredity entirely shape our characters
(what else could?). But we aren't responsible for our environment, and we
aren't responsible for our heredity. So we aren't responsible for our
characters. But then how can we be responsible for acts that arise from our
characters? There's a simple but extremely unpopular answer to this question:
we aren't. We are not and cannot be ultimately responsible for our behavior." — Galen Strawson interviewed in The Believer [via naturalism.org]
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