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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pink, Thomas

Titel

Power, Scepticism and Ethical Theory

Ist Teil von

• Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, 2015-05, Vol.76, p.225-251

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• It is often thought that as human agents we have a power to determine our actions for ourselves. And a natural conception of this power is as freedom – a power over alternatives so that we can determine for ourselves which of a variety of possible actions we perform. But what is the real content of this conception of freedom, and need self-determination take this particular form? I examine the possible forms self-determination might take, and the various ways freedom as a power over alternatives might be constituted. I argue that though ordinary ethical thought, and especially moral blame, may be committed to our possession of some capacity for self-determination, the precise nature of this power is probably ethically underdetermined – though conceptions of the nature of the power that come from outside ethics may then have important implications for ethics.