Moral Luck Nagel Analysis

To begin, I believe moral luck is moral blame or moral praise for our actions. Nagel discusses four ways in which the ‘natural objects of moral assessment “seem subject to moral luck”. First issue of luck would be the “way things turn out”. Next would be luck in constitutive factors, facts about the kind of person one is. Third is luck in one’s circumstances, which maybe situations one must face. Last one would be choices a person make in a particular circumstance, could be determined by luck. Nagel suggests that “in a sense the problem has no solution”. Nagel argues that we cannot abandon the idea that an agent must have control over the factors that are normally relevant. However we can abandon the judgments we make in particular cases that …show more content…
We all go through down falls in life and there is not luck that could help us with those down falls we face. Just because you have good morals doesn’t mean bad things won’t come your way and break you down. Vice versa, like people who may not have good morals might rise and have a good outcome. You never know what will happen in your life it’s all by chance. I don’t agree that if you do good, good things will come because there is people out there who have good morals and do well for others. But in the end they may get a bad outcome such as cancer or losing a love …show more content…
Nagel concludes that if there is a solution to the problem, we can find it only by acquiring a better understand of freedom of the will. I honestly believe we will never understand why bad things happen to good people and why good things happen to people we think don’t deserve the good outcome. It all comes back to god and the fate he has planned for us. An example I would use to explain that we will never understand why these things happen and that luck is no such thing. If god wants something good or bad to happen to us, it’s going to happen no matter what we