{"title":"Revisiting Frankfurt on freedom and responsibility","authors":"L. Ribeiro","doi":"10.22201/IIFS.18704905E.2016.235","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolDe acuerdo con la explicacion de la responsabilidad moral de Harry Frankfurt, un agente es moralmente responsable solo si sus elecciones y acciones reflejadas no estan constrenidas por una irresistible fuerza —ya sea de la perspectiva de primera o de tercera persona—. Argumentare aqui que esta afirmacion es problematica. Teniendo en cuenta algunos de los presupuestos de la discusion de Frankfurt, parece que hay casos segun los cuales uno puede ser considerado responsable, aunque las elecciones y acciones reflejadas esten constrenidas por una fuerza irresistible. La conclusion es que Frankfurt deberia haber admitido que la ausencia de una fuerza irresistible no es una condicion necesaria para la responsabilidad. EnglishAccording to Harry Frankfurt’s account of moral responsibility, an agent is morally responsible only if her reflected choices and actions are not constrained by an irresistible force —either from the first- or the third-person perspective. I shall argue here that this claim is problematic. Given some of the background assumptions of Frankfurt’s discussion, there seem to be cases according to which one may be deemed responsible, although one’s reflected choices and actions are constrained by an irresistible force. The conclusion is that Frankfurt should have acknowledged that freedom from an irresistible force is not a necessary condition for responsibility.","PeriodicalId":43820,"journal":{"name":"CRITICA-REVISTA HISPANOAMERICANA DE FILOSOFIA","volume":"32 1","pages":"35-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CRITICA-REVISTA HISPANOAMERICANA DE FILOSOFIA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22201/IIFS.18704905E.2016.235","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolDe acuerdo con la explicacion de la responsabilidad moral de Harry Frankfurt, un agente es moralmente responsable solo si sus elecciones y acciones reflejadas no estan constrenidas por una irresistible fuerza —ya sea de la perspectiva de primera o de tercera persona—. Argumentare aqui que esta afirmacion es problematica. Teniendo en cuenta algunos de los presupuestos de la discusion de Frankfurt, parece que hay casos segun los cuales uno puede ser considerado responsable, aunque las elecciones y acciones reflejadas esten constrenidas por una fuerza irresistible. La conclusion es que Frankfurt deberia haber admitido que la ausencia de una fuerza irresistible no es una condicion necesaria para la responsabilidad. EnglishAccording to Harry Frankfurt’s account of moral responsibility, an agent is morally responsible only if her reflected choices and actions are not constrained by an irresistible force —either from the first- or the third-person perspective. I shall argue here that this claim is problematic. Given some of the background assumptions of Frankfurt’s discussion, there seem to be cases according to which one may be deemed responsible, although one’s reflected choices and actions are constrained by an irresistible force. The conclusion is that Frankfurt should have acknowledged that freedom from an irresistible force is not a necessary condition for responsibility.