FREE WILL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY: The Conditions Of Moral Responsibility

Question 1

What do we need for moral responsibility?

Answer 1

A free human agent that is conscious and capable of making the decision, and able to tell right from wrong

Question 2

How can a person distinguish right from wrong?

Answer 2

Lived long enough to acquire moral discretion

Question 3

What are the exemptions in terms of knowledge of the good?

Answer 3

Those who have not yet learned it
Those who cannot understand it
Those who have permanently forgotten it
Those who have temporarily forgotten it

Question 4

What is David Humes approach to morality?

Answer 4

We have an in built moral sense, a ‘faculty of sympathy’

Question 5

We learn right from wrong from our social context

Answer 5

Morality is relative to the society you live and where you were brought up

Question 6

Where does morality come from for religious people?

Answer 6

The innate
The social
The religious- moral principles and social practices