Our blameworthiness or praiseworthiness for actions. If we have moral responsibility for something we have done that is wrong, we can expect to be punished for it. We may expect reward for things we do right.
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Autonomous Free Will
Self-rule. The term is made up of 'autos' meaning 'self' and 'nomos' meaning 'rule'. Many philosophers, such as Kant, hold that you can only be responsible for actions that you undertake of your own free will
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Libertarianism
The belief or philosophical postion that humans are free to make moral choices and are therefore morally responsible for their actions.
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Determinism
The rejection of belief in free will. The belief that choices are influenced by factors other than the will of the individual.
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Hard Determinism
The belief that people do not have free will to act in moral situations and that all moral actions have uncontrollable prior causes. Humans cannot be morally blameworthy for their actions because their actions are deter
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Soft Determinism
The philosophical position that free will requires determinism, otherwise otherwise actions would be random and thus not chosen; we still have moral responsibility- our will is a special type of cause.
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Predestination
The belief in Christianity that God has decided who to justify and save (who will and will not enter heaven).
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Intuition
A feeling that we have about something. We have intuitions that some things are right and that others are wrong.
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Incompatibilism
The view that Determinism and Libertarianism are incompatible; a deterministic universe has no room for free will: we must choose one or the other.
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Causal Determinism
The laws of cause and effect suggest that there is a complete chain of antecedent causes going back to the Big Bang.
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Self-rule. The term is made up of 'autos' meaning 'self' and 'nomos' meaning 'rule'. Many philosophers, such as Kant, hold that you can only be responsible for actions that you undertake of your own free will
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Autonomous Free Will
Card 3
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The belief or philosophical postion that humans are free to make moral choices and are therefore morally responsible for their actions.
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Card 4
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The rejection of belief in free will. The belief that choices are influenced by factors other than the will of the individual.
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Card 5
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The belief that people do not have free will to act in moral situations and that all moral actions have uncontrollable prior causes. Humans cannot be morally blameworthy for their actions because their actions are deter
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