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#784 Paul Russell: Free Will and Moral Responsibility

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The Moral Sentiments of Responsibility

What are moral sentiments and how do they relate to the kinds of issues we're exploring here? So responsibility involves as it were the relationship between agents and those who are holding the response. You can't just understand responsibility simply from the point of view of understanding being responsible or responsible agency you have to understand how it relates to if you want the social context, emotional context of our responses to one another. This is where the moral sentiments might come in and they come in in the history of philosophy so part of thisYou could answer this in some ways historically speaking philosophers who are very interested in David Hume try to understand responsibility.

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