What kind of freedom is required for moral responsibility?

Question

In other words, what does it meant to be "free" in this sense as opposed to non-free?

Answer 1

Friend - Freedom of choice with knowledge of the consequences of said choice in a moral format. GB

Answer 2

Moral responsibility, if done on a truly "free" level, would be complete anarchy.

The level of freedom then needed, would be ignorance. You'll agree with me when I say that through education, your freedoms are inhibited. Example: You learned about civil/social "Right, and Wrong". When you learned about that, you then created boundaries on yourself. Those boundaries, then dictate your morals and morality.

But where and when does a human learn about Right, and Wrong? Johnny, it's wrong to steal. Johnny, don't punch your brother, violence is wrong. Thou shalt not commit adultry.

I was trying to create a path. Parenting is the foreline of Right and Wrong education. And "parenting" is linear to religion. Religion then being the Standard of morals. To be truly independant and responsible for your individual morals, it would only exist in a world that has NO religion. That kind of world can not exist. The world we live in, the REAL world, will always have religion present. From religion then you have Right ,Wrong, then you have society, then you have order, then you have rules governemnt punishment etc etc etc.

The only kind of freedom, capable of moral responsibility, is the freedom one would obtain by being completely and solely isolated. Being away from anyone that could judge moral responsibility. Being away from judgement however, is not something tangible or real.


This isolation, however, is nothing that you or I could ever attain, considering the fact we've been education with right, wrong. So, if we can both accept that as truth, or atleast come to agreeance with that statement, the answer to your question is "none".

Answer 3

I don't think there is a debate but there is a relation between freedom and moral responsibility ! Every one is free to kill some body , but moral responsibility is not to kill , moral resp. is built in one self and includes love for others , compassion , thoughtfulness , have filings for other welfare and every thing that unwittingly and with freedom prevents you to do harm or your moral resp. and this goes for all aspects of daily life

Answer 4

causa sui freedom.

it's such a joke.
Every criminal is serving punishment for the state of their environment.

Answer 5

..the right to vote