Moral Luck: Crash Course Philosophy #39

Published on December 20, 2016
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Can two people who make the same bad decision bear different levels of moral responsibility? Today, we try to address this question with the concept of moral luck. Hank explains the difference between moral and causal responsibility, and the reasons we assign praise and blame.

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