Raoul Martinez on The Myth of Responsibility fromabi Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 2 min 42 sec
✓ Published: 07-Dec-2017

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Are we wholly responsible for our actions? We don’t choose our brains, our genetic inheritance, our circumstances, our milieu – so how much control do we really have over our lives? Philosopher Raoul Martinez argues that no one is truly blameworthy.Our most visionary scientists, psychologists and philosophers have agreed that we have far less free will than we think, and yet most of society’s systems are structured around the opposite principle – that we are all on a level playing fiel