Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams

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• Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams · Moral Luck (editorial synthesis)

  Holding agency and moral luck in tension

  Even if we retreat from outcomes to judge only inner character and intention, constitutive luck is already at work there; yet if we excuse everything due to luck, human agency vanishes, so we must hold personal responsibility and compassion for luck together.

  PrincipleMoral luck and outcome-blameGuilt and self-blame

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  Topics

  • Character and moral integrity

  Lenses

  • Moral luck and fair accountability
  • Dichotomy of control

  Modules

  • Dichotomy and Trichotomy of Control