Shifting Blame: What Should You "Own" and What Shouldn't You?
New Books in Psychology
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Moral Luck Is a Puzzle
Fiery Kushman is a psychology professor at Harvard who studies moral luck. He says the very idea of judging someone for their luck violates a deep moral intuition. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant all claim that intention plays a key role in morality. When we make moral judgments about someone, we're also making judgments about that person's mental states including her intentions.
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