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[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Full Idea
The making himself drunk, in a person whom drunkenness excites to do harm to others, is a crime against others.
Gist of Idea
It is a crime for someone with a violent disposition to get drunk
Source
John Stuart Mill (On Liberty [1857], Ch.5)
Book Ref
Mill,John Stuart: 'Utilitarianism (including On Liberty etc)', ed/tr. Warnock,Mary [Fontana 1962], p.230
A Reaction
This principle (based on knowing your own dispositions) is a very good account of the ethics drunkenness. We have a moral duty to know and remember our own dispositions. Violent people should avoid arguments as well as alcohol.
The
38 ideas
with the same theme
[when is a person morally responsible?]:
3026
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Actions are influenced by circumstances, so Cyrenaics say felons should be reformed, not hated
[Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius]
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22512
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Acts are voluntary if done knowingly, by the agent, and in his power to avoid it
[Aristotle]
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7814
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It was Epicurus who made the question of the will's freedom central to ethics
[Epicurus, by Grayling]
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525
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Behave well when alone, and feel shame in you own eyes
[Democritus (attr)]
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20838
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Fate initiates general causes, but individual wills and characters dictate what we do
[Chrysippus]
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21678
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If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished
[Cicero]
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5770
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Rewards and punishments are not deserved if they don't arise from free movement of the mind
[Boethius]
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1850
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Without free will not only is ethical action meaningless, but also planning, commanding, praising and blaming
[Aquinas]
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7496
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Rules and duties are based on the will, as that is all we control
[Montaigne]
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7569
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Humans are moral, and capable of reward and punishment, because of memory and self-consciousness
[Leibniz, by Jolley]
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2225
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If you deny all necessity and causation, then our character is not responsible for our crime
[Hume]
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2226
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Repentance gets rid of guilt, which shows that responsibility arose from the criminal principles in the mind
[Hume]
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7235
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Without freedom of will actions lack moral significance
[Rousseau]
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21378
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We clearly feel responsible for our deeds, because we are quite certain that we did them
[Schopenhauer]
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7222
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It is a crime for someone with a violent disposition to get drunk
[Mill]
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14807
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The history of morality rests on an error called 'responsibility', which rests on an error called 'free will'
[Nietzsche]
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14823
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Ceasing to believe in human responsibility is bitter, if you had based the nobility of humanity on it
[Nietzsche]
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14824
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It is absurd to blame nature and necessity; we should no more praise actions than we praise plants or artworks
[Nietzsche]
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22473
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Nietzsche said the will doesn't exist, so it can't ground moral responsibility
[Nietzsche, by Foot]
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2904
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The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people
[Nietzsche]
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4521
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None of the ancients had the courage to deny morality by denying free will
[Nietzsche]
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20166
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A man is a responsible agent to the extent he has an intention, and knows what he is doing
[Hampshire]
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22474
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Unlike aesthetic evaluation, moral evaluation needs a concept of responsibility
[Foot]
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9270
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A 'wanton' is not a person, because they lack second-order volitions
[Frankfurt]
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9269
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A person may be morally responsible without free will
[Frankfurt]
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20168
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Blame usually has no effect if the recipient thinks it unjustified
[Williams,B]
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20167
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Blame partly rests on the fiction that blamed agents always know their obligations
[Williams,B]
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2178
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In bad actions, guilt points towards victims, and shame to the agent
[Williams,B]
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6699
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The chain of consequences may not be the same as the chain of responsibility
[Graham]
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23087
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Much human evil is not autonomous, so moral responsibility need not be autonomous
[Kekes]
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23089
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Evil people may not be autonomously aware, if they misjudge the situation
[Kekes]
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23093
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Moral and causal responsibility are not clearly distinct
[Kekes]
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23094
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Ought implies can means moral responsibility needs autonomy
[Kekes]
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23095
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Why should moral responsibility depend on autonomy, rather than social role or experience?
[Kekes]
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23096
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Morality should aim to prevent all evil actions, not just autonomous ones
[Kekes]
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23098
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Effects show the existence of moral responsibility, and mental states show the degree
[Kekes]
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20170
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Responsibility is unprovoked foreseeable harm, against society, arising from vicious character
[Kekes]
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23557
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To judge agents in remote times and cultures we need a moral resentment weaker than blame
[Fricker,M]
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