The Obligation Dilemma
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 October 2019
- ISBN 9780190050856
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 147x211x30 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 4
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Short description:
There are no moral obligations: either it is determined in advance what we will do, or it is not. But any action not in our control cannot be obligatory for us. Hence, regardless of whether our actions are determined to occur, nothing is obligatory. This conclusion has important implications for conceptions of moral responsibility and free will.
MoreLong description:
Can you be morally obligated to do something? To renowned philosopher Ishtiyaque Haji, the answer is guardedly no. Regardless of whether determinism is true, he argues, there is a prima facie plausibility that there are no moral obligations. Powerfully and efficiently, Haji develops a conclusion that has major implications for how we conceive issues in moral responsibility and free will. The book develops the obligation dilemma as clearly as possible. The next step will be for further sustained philosophical work to solve it, assuming it can be resolved, inspired by Haji.
In many respects, the obligation dilemma mirrors the well-known responsibility dilemma, where no one is morally responsible for anything. When suitably amended, the strongest recommendations in favor of, or in response to, the responsibility dilemma neither fully support nor undermine the obligation dilemma. Exposing the obligation dilemma's implications for responsibility, and its ramifications for forgiveness (something central to interpersonal relationships), underscores its urgency.
In his exciting and challenging new book, The Obligation Dilemma, Ishtiyaque Haji presents forceful arguments which, if correct, show that moral obligation is incompatible both with determinism and with indeterminism. Determinism plausibly would entail that we lack the kind of freedom of action that, arguably, we must have, if we have any obligations. Indeterminism plausibly would entail that we lack the kind of control over our actions that, arguably, we must have, if we have any obligations. Since our world is either deterministic or indeterministic, Haji's arguments thus seem to show that there are no moral obligations. Must we conclude that everything is permitted? This is a significant challenge to moral philosophy, and to our conception of morality as setting constraints on how we are permitted to act.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Freedom and Obligation: A Dilemma
Chapter 2. Determinism and Obligation
Chapter 3. Indeterminism and Obligation
Chapter 4. The Extended Luck Problem
Chapter 5. Obligation and Responsibility
Chapter 6. Does Obligation Require Weak or Strong Alternatives?
Chapter 7. Obligation and Forgiveness
Chapter 8. Options and Challenges
Appendix A. The Actual Sequence Proposal
Appendix B. Some Other Responses to the O-Luck Problem
