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    Doing the right thing for the right reasons freely does n... — Carmelics
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    Supports→There is an asymmetry between the conditions for freely doing right and freely doing wrong.

    Doing the right thing for the right reasons freely does not require an ability to act otherwise.

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    A third account of freedom, sometimes neglected by those who emphasize the importance of human freedom, is Susan Wolf’s Reason View, according to which “the freedom necessary for responsibility consists in the ability (or freedom) to do the right thing for the right reasons” (Wolf 1990, 94). But unlike the autonomy view, as she calls it, such freedom does not require the ability to refrain from doing the right thing for the right reasons. Wolf thus commits herself to the following asymmetry: whereas committing a wrong (or immoral) act freely requires an ability to do otherwise and therefore to...

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