The Frankfurt Cases: The Moral of the Stories
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Harry Frankfurt’s article, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility,” triggered a huge literature discussing whether Frankfurt presents a case (or perhaps a template for a case) in which an individual is morally responsible for behavior that he or she could not have avoided.1 In his seminal article (which in a sense goes back to an example originally presented by John Locke in An Essay concerning Human Understanding), Frankfurt seeks to impugn the Principle of Alternate Possibilities
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تاریخ انتشار 2010