> We want to know whether we are responsible or determined for practical > reasons.... And that's why we want to know about responsibility and > determinism, because of the practical effects it has in human life. It's a > human question, not a metaphysical mystery.
For what practical reasons do we want to know whether we are responsible or determined? We would still need to condemn the intention to do harm and praise the intention to do good whether or not we think of people as subject to a chain of causality or free of such chains (for the practical reason that we think that doing so has predictable effects on others). Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
