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Aristotle on Constitutive, Developmental, and Resultant Moral Luck [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter offers a definition of luck from Aristotle's Physics, considers how this definition of luck from the Physics relates to Aristotle's treatment of luck in his works on ethics and the good life, as well as how it compares with the modern ...
Athanassoulis, Nafsika
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Bernard Williams, Moral Luck

Crítica, 2018
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Enrique Villanueva
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Salience, Imagination, and Moral Luck [PDF]

, 2017
One key desideratum of a theory of blame is that it be able to explain why we typically have differing blaming responses in cases involving significant degrees of luck. T.M.
Stout, Nathan
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Accepting Moral Luck [PDF]

, 2019
I argue that certain kinds of luck can partially determine an agent’s praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. To make this view clearer, consider some examples.
Hartman, Robert J.
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The Thirsty Traveler and Luck-Free Moral Luck

Problemos
This article is divided into three sections. In the first and second, I examine Sartorio’s account of the causal structure of the famous Thirsty Traveler thought experiment. I argue that this account does not withstand critical scrutiny. In the third, I
Samuel Kahn
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Why not be a desertist?: Three arguments for desert and against luck egalitarianism [PDF]

, 2018
Many philosophers believe that luck egalitarianism captures “desert-like” intuitions about justice. Some even think that luck egalitariansm distributes goods in accordance with desert. In this paper, we argue that this is wrong.
Brouwer, Huub, Mulligan, Thomas
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BCI-Mediated Behavior, Moral Luck, and Punishment [PDF]

, 2020
An ongoing debate in the philosophy of action concerns the prevalence of moral luck: instances in which an agent’s moral responsibility is due, at least in part, to factors beyond his control.
Miller, Daniel J.
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On nature and reindeer luck

Rangifer, 2000
This paper describes the reindeer Sami understanding of a worthy life expressed in qualitative distinctions centred around the term 'reindeer luck'. Reindeer luck does not in itself mean a good life but is an ingredient of a good life.
Nils Oskal
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Can virtuous people emerge from tragic dilemmas having acted well? [PDF]

, 2007
A tragic dilemma is thought to arise when an agent, through no fault of her own, finds herself in a situation where she must choose between two courses of action, both of which it would be wrong to undertake.
van Zyl, Liezl
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‘Do I feel lucky?’: Moral Luck, Bluffing and the Ethics of Eastwood's Outlaw-Lawman in Coogan's Bluff and the Dirty Harry Films

Film-Philosophy, 2017
In Coogan's Bluff (1968) and the Dirty Harry films, Clint Eastwood's characters often invoke luck when they want unpredictable others to assume some responsibility to stop violence, thereby implicating moral luck in heroism.
Joel Deshaye
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