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Ep. 149 - Moral Luck and Theories of Moral Responsibility w/Dr. Taylor Cyr

Parker's Pensées

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The Constitution of Luck - The Inevitability of Moral Luck

Sally Kohn: The constitution of luck was a little bit hard for me at first, but then I just think just kind of play out the word and it's like, it's how you're constituted. It seems like it's not totally up to us. We didn't shape ourselves. Like it's super naive to think that though some people might say, yeah, I pulled myself up my bootstraps. But there's this sort of principle or this intuition about blameworthiness that it shouldn't be luck-free when it comes to moral luck. She says we can sometimes exercise at least indirect control over our characters in various ways by performing actions that were responsible for

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