The Dissenter cover image

#554 Felipe De Brigard: Memory, Imagination, and Free Will

The Dissenter

00:00

Is Free Will Tied to Moral Responsibility?

Is free will tied to moral responsibility in any way? Yes, i would think so. I have a hard time thinking that individuals that are highly educated, that are privileged, that have come to be an ambaand to grow up on extraordinarily privileged circumstances, and do something wrong. An impoverished life gives you an enormous amount of raw material to generate mental simulations for alternative ways in which you could have behaved. You can even think cosnitively, that the fact that he was able to engage in all those controvaciels, had decided to act otherwise, should cont toward his sentence. He deserves weigh morebut much more punishment, than the poor person who grew up in this extraordinarily

Play episode from 47:28
Transcript

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app