Moral Luck from Bernard William's Point of View
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Moral luck is an important issue in meta- ethics. Its conflict to principle of control make challenges to moral moral assessment, moral judgment and moral responsibility. Bernard Williams is the first philosopher who uses the expression "moral luck" and tries to show that the contradiction between moral and luck is not so serious. Against Kantians idea and also our intuitions Williams doesnt believe that morality is immune of luck and that unlike other values, is accessible to all people. If moral value is accessible to all, according to his idea, it should be not only immune of luck but also supreme. Giving some examples, Williams by concepts like justification, regret and retrospective, shows that morality hasnt these characteristics. Dividing moral luck into four types: resultant, circumstantial, constitutive and causal, Thomas Nagel puts William's moral luck under the first type and criticizes it. This study seeks to explain Bernard Williams viewpoint on moral luck. At first it clears types of moral luck, principle of control and its contradiction with moral luck, then after explaining Williams account of moral luck criticizes it. Nagels criticisms and others show that although they accept the existence of moral luck and also their account is compatible to williams but they deny williams success in defending of this phenomenon. Finally, despite of all critiques, it seems that Williams failure in defense of moral luck didnt decrease the importance of this matter, but made some stronger ideas were appeared by Thomas Nagel in this regard.
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Persian
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Philosophical Investigations, Volume:10 Issue: 18, 2016
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189 to 218
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