Allison's 'incorporation thesis' notwithstanding, Henry Sidgwick and later P.F. Strawson argue that moral responsibility requires a causal power to do otherwise, not merely rational self-legislation.
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The idea that you should live by rules you create for yourself through careful thinking, rather than just following what feels good or what society tells you to do.
moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)