RT Article
T1 The Culpable Inability Problem for Synchronic and Diachronic ‘Ought Implies Can’
JF Journal of moral philosophy
VO 16
IS 1
SP 50
OP 62
A1 King, Alex
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/181746986X
AB My paper has two aims: to underscore the importance of differently time-indexed ‘ought implies can’ principles, and to apply this to the culpable inability problem. Sometimes we make ourselves unable to do what we ought, but in those cases, we may still fail to do what we ought. This is taken to be a serious problem for synchronic ‘ought implies can’ principles, with a simultaneous ‘ought’ and ‘can.’ Some take it to support diachronic ‘ought implies can,’ with a potentially temporally distinct ‘ought’ and ‘can.’ I will argue that this problem is not avoided by diachronic ‘ought implies can.’
K1 remote obligation
K1 diachronic
K1 synchronic
K1 culpable inability
K1 ought implies could have
K1 Ought implies can
DO 10.1163/17455243-20180004