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Aristotle on Moral Responsibility - Character and Cause (Hardcover)
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Aristotle on Moral Responsibility - Character and Cause (Hardcover)
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This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauve Meyer's
1993 book, in which she presents a comprehensive examination of
Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and
Nicomachean Ethics. She makes the case that these constitute a
theory of moral responsibility--albeit one with important
differences from modern theories.
Highlights of the discussion include a reconstruction of the
dialectical argument in the Eudemian Ethics II 6-9, and a
demonstration that the definitions of 'voluntary' and 'involuntary'
in Nicomachean Ethics III 1 are the culmination of that argument.
By identifying the paradigms of voluntariness and involuntariness
that Aristotle begins with and the opponents (most notably Plato)
he addresses, Meyer explains notoriously puzzling features of the
Nicomachean account--such as Aristotle's requirement that
involuntary agents experience pain or regret. Other familiar
features of Aristotle's account are cast in a new light. That we
are responsible for the characters we develop turns out not to be a
necessary condition of responsible agency. That voluntary action
has its "origin" in the agent and that our actions are "up to us to
do and not to so"--often interpreted as implying a libertarian
conception of agency--turn out to be perfectly compatible with
causal determinism, a point Meyer makes by locating these locutions
in the context of a Aristotle's general understanding of causality.
While Aristotle does not himself face or address worries that
determinism is incompatible with responsibility, his causal
repertoire provides the resources for a powerful response to
incompatibilist arguments. On this and other fronts Aristotle's is
a view to be taken seriously by theorists of moral responsibility.
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