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    P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes account grounds respon... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The story of responsibility based solely on attributing actions to agents is incomplete.

    P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes account grounds responsibility fully in the quality of will expressed in actions, without requiring separate accountability norms.

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    • 1.Reactive attitudes (resentment, gratitude, love) naturally track ill-will or good-will in actions, making them the fundamental basis of responsibility.
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    • 2.Accountability norms are derivative constructs that merely formalize what reactive attitudes already accomplish interpersonally.
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    • 3.This account avoids the circularity problem: norms requiring norms, by grounding responsibility in natural human responses.
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    • 1.Reactive attitudes are culturally variable and psychologically contingent; they cannot reliably ground moral responsibility across contexts.
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    • 2.Quality of will alone fails to distinguish culpability: identical bad will warrants different responses based on harm, capacity, and circumstances.
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    • 3.Some agents deserve accountability despite poor will (negligence) or deserve leniency despite good will (reasonable mistakes), requiring independent normative standards.
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