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Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Reward, Punishment and Determinism

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Recall questions on what must hold for reward and punishment to be just, and on how hard determinism undermines that justification.

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Key term

What condition must be met for reward and punishment to be rationally justified?

Key term

How does hard determinism undermine the justice of reward and punishment?

Key term

On what grounds might consequentialist theories justify punishment even if moral responsibility is questioned?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    What condition must be met for reward and punishment to be rationally justified?

    Model answer

    Moral responsibility, if a person is not morally responsible for an action, rewarding or punishing them for it lacks rational basis.

  2. 2

    Why does reward presuppose free choice on the part of the agent?

    Model answer

    Because reward assumes the agent freely chose to perform a praiseworthy action and therefore deserves recognition or benefit for that choice.

  3. 3

    What assumption about the agent underlies the justification of punishment?

    Model answer

    That the agent freely chose to perform a blameworthy action and therefore deserves censure or penalty.

  4. 4

    How does hard determinism undermine the justice of reward and punishment?

    Model answer

    If hard determinism is true and no one possesses genuine free will, then no one is truly morally responsible, which removes the rational basis for deserved reward or punishment.

  5. 5

    Why does libertarianism provide support for desert-based reward and punishment?

    Model answer

    Libertarianism affirms that agents could have done otherwise, establishing genuine moral responsibility and thereby justifying rewards and punishments based on desert.

  6. 6

    How does compatibilism define freedom in a way that preserves grounds for reward and punishment?

    Model answer

    Compatibilism defines freedom as acting according to one's own desires without external constraint, allowing moral responsibility to be retained even within a deterministic framework.

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