Question 1

Foot says, "We have now considered two suggestions: (1) that an undetermined action would not be one which could properly be attributed to an agent as something that he desires and (2) that an undetermined action would not be the action of a causal agent."

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Question 2

Explain the following claim: "that so far from being incompatible with determinism, free will actually requires it." Do you agree with this claim? Explain your answer.

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Question 3

Explain how the following passage offers a definition of the concept of determinism: "If human action is subject to a universal law of causation [then] there will be for any action a set of sufficient conditions which can be traced back to factors outside the control of the agent."

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Question 4

Explain what Foot means when she relates that "an action which is not determined cannot properly be called an action at all, being something that happened to the agent rather than something he did." Do you agree with this claim? Explain your answer.

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Question 5

Explain what Foot means when she says, "to explain an action is not necessarily to show that it could have been predicted from some fact about the agent's character-that he is weak, greedy, sentimental, and so forth. We may if we like say that an action is never fully explained unless it has been shown to be covered by a law which connects it to such a character trait."

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Question 6

Foot says, "We hold responsible only a man who is a rational agent; if someone were always to do things out of the blue, without having any reason to do them, we should be inclined to count him as a lunatic, one who could not be held responsible for his actions, so that even if he did things he would do things for which he could not be held responsible." Do you agree with this claim? Explain your answer.

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Question 7

Explain what Foot means when she says, "it looks as if a moral agent is a man whose actions are in general determined, if determinism is involved in having a motive for what he does."

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Question 8

Explain what Foot means when she says, "Assigning a motive to an action is not bringing it under any law; it is rather saying something about the kind of action it was, the direction in which it was tending, or what it was done as."

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Question 9

Foot says, "We have now considered two suggestions: (1) that an undetermined action would not be one which could properly be attributed to an agent as something that he did and (2) that an undetermined action would not be the action of a rational agent." Do you agree with these claims? Explain your answer.

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The answer of Foot says, "We have now considered two...

Quiz 6: John Locke Free Agents

Foot says, "We have now considered two suggestions: (1) that an undetermined action would not be one which could properly be attributed to an agent as something that he desires and (2) that an undetermined action would not be the action of a causal agent."

Explain the following claim: "that so far from being incompatible with determinism, free will actually requires it." Do you agree with this claim? Explain your answer.

Explain how the following passage offers a definition of the concept of determinism: "If human action is subject to a universal law of causation [then] there will be for any action a set of sufficient conditions which can be traced back to factors outside the control of the agent."

Explain what Foot means when she relates that "an action which is not determined cannot properly be called an action at all, being something that happened to the agent rather than something he did." Do you agree with this claim? Explain your answer.

Explain what Foot means when she says, "it looks as if a moral agent is a man whose actions are in general determined, if determinism is involved in having a motive for what he does."

Explain what Foot means when she says, "Assigning a motive to an action is not bringing it under any law; it is rather saying something about the kind of action it was, the direction in which it was tending, or what it was done as."