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- Ultimate Responsibility (UR) is Robert Kane 's concept that we can be responsible for current actions, ones that are essentially determined (this can only be adequate determinism, of course) by our character and values, as long as we formed that character ourselves by earlier free actions that he calls Self-Forming Actions.
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By ultimate responsibility Kane means that the sources or origins of our actions lie "in us" rather than in something else (such as decrees of fate, foreordained acts of God, or antecedent causes and laws of nature) which are outside us and beyond our control.
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Ultimate Responsibility (UR) is Robert Kane's concept that we can be responsible for current actions, ones that are essentially determined (this can only be adequate determinism, of course) by our character and values, as long as we formed that character ourselves by earlier free actions that he calls Self-Forming Actions.
Kane’s model for free will is designed to provide an agent with what he calls Ultimate Responsibility (UR), based on his idea of the Self-Forming Action. Kane’s importance in the history of the free will problem is fourfold. First, his event-causal free will model has in recent years been the libertarian model most often discussed, and the
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Ultimate responsibility entails that agents must be the ultimate creators (or originators) and sustainers of their own ends and purposes. There must be more than one way for a person's life to turn out (AP). More importantly, whichever way it turns out must be based in the person's willing actions. As Kane defines it,
Since his earliest book, Free Will and Values (1985), Kane has focused on free choices that have moral or prudential significance, as as well as those with m...
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I. Ultimate Responsibility: Alternative Possibilities. I shall focus my critical comments on Kane's crucial notion of "ultimate responsibility"-and his condition "UR." Kane insightfully distinguishes between two separate neces-sary conditions for moral responsibility. First, many philosophers have
This chapter turns to the second and the more important criterion for free will, namely, ultimate responsibility. A series of theses are defended that explain what this criterion entails and why it is incompatible with determinism.
