The obligation dilemma / Ishtiyaque Haji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haji, Ishtiyaque, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duty.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This work argues for the prima facie plausibility of the surprising and paradoxical conclusion that there are no moral obligations regardless of whether determinism is true. In the form of a dilemma, the primary argument for this skeptical conclusion presupposes that obligation requires freedom. A minimal number of credible principles entail that this is the freedom both to do, and to refrain from doing, what is obligatory. On the deterministic horn of the dilemma, since determinism eliminates freedom to do otherwise, it imperils moral obligation. On the indeterministic horn, pertinent actions are too luck-infected to qualify as obligations. Hence, there are no moral obligations. The text's principal goal is to develop the obligation dilemma as powerfully and clearly as possible to inspire sustained philosophical work to solve it (assuming that it can be solved).

Contents:

Freedom and obligation: A dilemma

Determinism and obligation

Indeterminism and obligation

The extended luck problem

Obligation and responsibility

Does obligation require weak or strong alternatives?

Obligation and forgiveness

Options and challenges.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2019).

ISBN:

0-19-005087-X

0-19-005088-8

0-19-005086-1