Voluntariness
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The analogy between love and sickness is a powerful conceptual device that structures our understanding of love (and perhaps partly our understanding sickness, too). We grasp love in the way we do because we have this analogy in mind. My... more
'Reason, voluntariness and moral responsibility' argues against the theory of responsibility and blame of T.M. Scanlon, that reduces moral responsibility to a form of rational appraisability for our psychological attitudes generally - as... more
The article studies the reception of Aristotle’s treatments of voluntariness and decision (EN 3.1–5) in the first three Latin commentaries (two by Albert the Great, one by Thomas Aquinas) that are based on the integral text of the... more
An account of the voluntariness of certain types of habits and of states of character, looking at both habituation by others and habituation of oneself, and how a state of character can be voluntary even if the person did not intend to... more
I argue that believing at will – i.e. believing for practical reasons – is in some sense possible and in some sense impossible. It is impossible insofar as we think of belief formation as a result of our exercise of certain capacities... more
The paper defends the idea that when we evaluate whether agents deserve praise or blame for their actions, we evaluate both whether their action was intentional, and whether it was voluntary. This idea can explain an asymmetry in... more
El presente trabajo tiene como propósito elucidar la postura de Aristóteles con respecto a la responsabilidad moral basándonos en el contenido de su libro Ética a Nicómaco. A pesar de que no encontramos una teoría explícita al respecto,... more
After putting forward a general explanation of the legal concept of abandonment of criminal attempt and its requirement of voluntariness, this paper points out certain critical points of the theory of abandonment. Furthermore, the paper... more
Michael Robinson takes issue with an ‘argument from voluntariness’ made by several opponents of current practices for managing conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare, including Cantor, Stahl and Emanuel, and Schuklenk, whom he... more
This essay deals with the question of whether or not voluntariness is a necessary condition for happiness. In this I attempt to present and explain the relationships between several parts of Aristotle's ethics. This includes discussions... more
Millum and Garnett (2019) distinguish between two types of coercion, i.e. consent-undermining coercion and coercion as subjection. In this paper, I challenge Millum and Garnett's view that distinguishing between these two types of... more
Prijevod knjige: Janko Zagar, Acting on Principles: A Thomistic Perspective in Making Moral Decisions. Djelovanje po načelima, rezultat više od trideset godina rada u nastavi, pruža sveobuhvatan prikaz moralne teologije sv. Tome... more