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History and Blameworthiness: His-Story Matters for Diminished Blameworthiness

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We do a lot of blaming. In doing so, it is imperative to make sure we are doing it right. By this, I mean it is important that we blame people to the extent to which they deserve it. Nomy Arpaly is best known for her work on praiseworthiness. Through her view on praiseworthiness, she reaches a view about blameworthiness. In her view, she formulates a conception of blameworthiness according to which blameworthiness for morally wrong actions might be diminished if and only if it was not done purely out of ill-will, or a lack of goodwill. I disagree; I argue that if a moral agent does not have a reasonable chance to shape the quality of their will, then, in performing a morally wrong act, their blameworthiness for that act is diminished. I conclude by proposing an addition to Arpaly’s view, a proportionality principle, that better reflects what diminishes blameworthiness.


MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Scharf, Charles Robert. History and Blameworthiness: His-story Matters for Diminished Blameworthiness. . 2022. dickinson.hykucommons.org/concern/etds/5e679c82-5d12-4f93-b73c-a51a02955cdc?q=2022.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

S. C. Robert. (2022). History and Blameworthiness: His-Story Matters for Diminished Blameworthiness. https://dickinson.hykucommons.org/concern/etds/5e679c82-5d12-4f93-b73c-a51a02955cdc?q=2022

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Scharf, Charles Robert. History and Blameworthiness: His-Story Matters for Diminished Blameworthiness. 2022. https://dickinson.hykucommons.org/concern/etds/5e679c82-5d12-4f93-b73c-a51a02955cdc?q=2022.

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