Essay On If He Could Have Done Otherwise

As autonomous humans we generally think we are morally responsible for all the things we have done. That being said, it is only natural to believe that for a person who is morally responsible for what he/she has done than they could have done otherwise. Meaning they could have do the exact opposite of what they did. This alludes to the question that many philosophers have struggled with, this being, what does it mean when someone says that an individual who acted in a particular way “could have done otherwise?.” R. Chrisholm takes this concept as the fundamental question in our metaphysics of action and has formulated many explanations for the so called “free-will problem.” Although he has elaborated on this topic for quite sometime in works such as “he could have done otherwise” this paper will focus on chrisholms persistent points. many philosophers including Chrisholm have described cans as being constitutionally iffy. A simple example is to say that he/she could have done otherwise, meaning he/she had chosen to otherwise, which alludes to …show more content…
In this situation their was no sufficient causal condition in his going to canada or not going. This is a prominent issue that Chisholm argues against. The reason being is lets suppose another entity was waiting in the airport to get to canada. Lets assume that this person would have interfered with our examples path to Canada. In this instance it would be incorrect to say that our example could have gotten to Canada, however, it is true to say that in this situation there isn't a sufficient causal condition that would have stopped her/him from going to Canada. To clarify, the sufficient casual condition would have only arisen if the person in the airport freely