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    P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework grounds resp... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Psychopaths may be held responsible, at least to some extent and in certain ways.

    P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes framework grounds responsibility in reciprocal emotional engagement within the moral community.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires reciprocal engagement; isolated agents cannot meaningfully be held responsible without community recognition.
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    • 2.Reactive attitudes (resentment, gratitude, love) are constitutive of moral life and better explain responsibility than abstract rules.
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    • 3.This framework avoids both harsh retributivism and eliminativism by grounding responsibility in natural human relationships.
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    • 1.Reciprocal emotional engagement cannot ground responsibility for isolated acts; a wrongdoer remains responsible even if community abandons reactive attitudes.
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    • 2.Making responsibility depend on emotional responses creates implausible results: psychopaths escape responsibility if communities stop resenting them.
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    • 3.This framework conflates responsibility's metaphysical basis with its social expression; emotions reflect responsibility rather than constitute it.
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