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    Real Self views have some explanatory merit regarding mor... — Carmelics
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    Real Self views have some explanatory merit regarding moral responsibility.

    Moral Responsibility
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    • 1.Real Self views explain why people acting under the influence of hypnosis or compulsive desires are often not responsible.
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    • 2.Agents under hypnosis or compulsive desires are typically unable to govern their behavior on the basis of their valuational systems, and so are alienated from their actions in a way that undermines responsibility.
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    • 1.The 'real self' is not a stable, unified entity but a contested construct varying across time, context, and reflective equilibrium.
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    • 2.If there is no determinate real self, then grounding responsibility in alignment with it yields indeterminate or arbitrary attributions of blame.
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    • 1.Frankfurt-style cases show that an agent can be morally responsible even when acting against their higher-order volitions or valuational system.
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    • 2.If responsibility can obtain without real-self alignment, then real-self alignment is neither necessary nor explanatorily fundamental to responsibility.
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    Wolf (1990: 33)
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    According to Wolf, one point in favor of Real Self views is that they explain why people acting under the influence of hypnosis or compulsive desires are often not responsible (1990: 33). Since these agents are typically unable, under these conditions, to govern their behavior on the basis of their valuational systems, they are alienated from their actions in a way that undermines responsibility. But, for Wolf, it is a mark against Real Self views that they tend to be silent on the topic of how agents come to have the selves that they do. An agent’s real self might, for example, be the product...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states that "one point in favor of Real Self views is that they explain why people acting under hypnosis or compulsive desires are often not responsible," which directly supports the conclusion that these views have explanatory merit, and the second premise accurately captures the mechanism described.

    Confidence: Clearly stated argument in favor of Real Self views.

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