Stawson’s thesis in this article was that people cannot be ultimately morally responsible for their actions because they cannot be the cause of their actions. There are three views when it comes to moral responsibility. Stawson believes in a deterministic view. This is that every action is determined by a set of previous actions. Stawson in this article first starts by laying out his main arguments for this: nothing can be causa sui, the cause of itself, in order to be responsible for your actions you have to have causa sui, therefore you are not truly morally responsible for your actions. In the article Stawson uses an example to help justify his argument. Stawson suggest that suppose you intended to buy a cake with your last bit of money.
