Strawson's reactive attitudes account shows that moral responsibility is grounded in interpersonal relationships and participant stances, not metaphysical freedom from determination.
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A relation in which the requirements associated with one thing include the requirements associated with another
grounded in(whether distinctness or identity is explained by intrinsic features)
To be explained by or to have its reason or basis in something else—like how a tree being wet is grounded in (explained by) recent rain.
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)
reactive attitudes(Blame is given as the paradigm case of a reactive attitude)
Attitudes that agents have towards other agents in response to those agents' behavior