A Shelter from Luck: The Morality System Reconstructed

In Morality and Agency: Themes from Bernard Williams. András Szigeti and Matthew Talbert (eds.), 184–211. New York: Oxford University Press. 2022. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197626566.003.0009

Offers a synthesis of Williams’s critical remarks on Kantian morality; the key idea is that modern morality strives to shelter life from luck.

morality system, moral luck, blame, voluntariness, Bernard Williams, Kant

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