Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens

It appears common sense that acts of refraining, or absence-events, are morally assessed in part by what they cause. This paper focuses on determining which agential absence-events are put up for deontic assessments. Proposals are introduced to align with the common-sense thought in order to determi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Xin Er
Other Authors: Andrew T. Forcehimes
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
Subjects:
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156124
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
id sg-ntu-dr.10356-156124
record_format dspace
spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1561242023-03-11T20:09:33Z Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens Lin, Xin Er Andrew T. Forcehimes School of Humanities forcehimes@ntu.edu.sg Humanities::Philosophy It appears common sense that acts of refraining, or absence-events, are morally assessed in part by what they cause. This paper focuses on determining which agential absence-events are put up for deontic assessments. Proposals are introduced to align with the common-sense thought in order to determine what kinds of absence-events are put up for assessment. Ultimately, we need to accept an All Things Considered proposal of what is morally significant in absence-events. However, the normative implications of accepting this proposal shows what is being located: moral responsibility is more significant to our thought than causal responsibility. There are two further implications if we accept the thought: one, that Deontologists have to carve out a clearer picture of what goes on behind moral responsibility and two, that the Consequentialist view may have to be rejected in cases of refraining to accommodate the thought. Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy 2022-04-05T04:35:04Z 2022-04-05T04:35:04Z 2022 Final Year Project (FYP) Lin, X. E. (2022). Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156124 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156124 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
institution Nanyang Technological University
building NTU Library
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider NTU Library
collection DR-NTU
language English
topic Humanities::Philosophy
spellingShingle Humanities::Philosophy
Lin, Xin Er
Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens
description It appears common sense that acts of refraining, or absence-events, are morally assessed in part by what they cause. This paper focuses on determining which agential absence-events are put up for deontic assessments. Proposals are introduced to align with the common-sense thought in order to determine what kinds of absence-events are put up for assessment. Ultimately, we need to accept an All Things Considered proposal of what is morally significant in absence-events. However, the normative implications of accepting this proposal shows what is being located: moral responsibility is more significant to our thought than causal responsibility. There are two further implications if we accept the thought: one, that Deontologists have to carve out a clearer picture of what goes on behind moral responsibility and two, that the Consequentialist view may have to be rejected in cases of refraining to accommodate the thought.
author2 Andrew T. Forcehimes
author_facet Andrew T. Forcehimes
Lin, Xin Er
format Final Year Project
author Lin, Xin Er
author_sort Lin, Xin Er
title Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens
title_short Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens
title_full Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens
title_fullStr Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens
title_full_unstemmed Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens
title_sort common sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens
publisher Nanyang Technological University
publishDate 2022
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156124
_version_ 1761781431344824320