One essay concludes by claiming this concept poses a problem between reconciling the internal view of self with the acknowledgement that "we are parts of the world" and accordingly do not have control over what we do. That essay cites ordinary citizens in Nazi Germany who were subjected to a test that citizens of other countries were not as an example of the "circumstantia
One essay concludes by claiming this concept poses a problem between reconciling the internal view of self with the acknowledgement that "we are parts of the world" and accordingly do not have control over what we do. That essay cites ordinary citizens in Nazi Germany who were subjected to a test that citizens of other countries were not as an example of the "circumstantial" category of this concept. The essay that coined this term analyzed the difference between the remorse felt by a spectator of a car accident and the lorry driver who accidentally ran over a child, which is labeled as "agent regret." Thomas Nagel wrote a 1976 essay titled this concept, which was introduced in an essay analyzing how one could evaluate Gauguin's decision to abandon his family and become an artist. For 10 points, name this concept introduced by Bernard Williams to determine when an agent can be ethically blamed for an action whose outcome they did not have control over.
One essay concludes by claiming this concept poses a problem between reconciling the internal view of self with the acknowledgement that "we are parts of the world" and accordingly do not have control over what we do.
Moral Luck