Moral Appraisability

Professor Haji focuses on a central problem of moral philosophy, that is: whether we are morally responsible for some of our actions, our intentional omissions, or the consequences of these things. His view is that one is morally responsible for performing an action when the following conditions are met: one must control the action in an appropriate way; the action must arise from actional springs (like desires) that are truly the agent's own; and one must act in the belief that one is doing something morally obligatory, right, or wrong. Haji then discusses certain implications of this analysis. He argues that the conditions of moral responsibility he defends are not undermined by determinism and are compatible with varieties of indeterminism.