| 
    
 PERSONAL
   REACTION 
simply states feelings,
   preferences 
 | 
  
    
EVALUATION 
gives reasons for beliefs 
 | 
 
| 
   I think Locke is wrong about personal identity. | 
  
   …because personality traits are more important for
   defining a person than memories are. | 
 
| 
   Parfit is right about survival being more important than
   identity. | 
  
   …because identity is a strict mathematical concept.  It
   does not make sense to apply the concept of strict numerical
   identity to persons because persons are not the kinds of things
   that tend to have strict numerical identity. | 
 
| 
   I agree with Frankfurt about moral responsibility. | 
  
   …because sometimes you do not have the ability to do
   otherwise, but this is not why you do what you do.  If the reason
   why you perform an action is because you want to, then you are
   morally responsible. | 
 
| 
   I feel like Van Inwagen successfully defends Incompatibalism. | 
  
   …because if determinism were true, then there would be no
   state of affairs that you could prevent.  And if you can’t
   prevent something from happening, you can’t be morally
   responsible for it.  Moral responsibility for something requires
   the possibility of preventing that thing from happening. | 
 
Monday, September 23, 2013
Personal Reaction vs. Evaluation
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