Strawson's Argument Of Moral Responsibility

Being morally responsible is when a person decides whether his actions are right or wrong. And whether the person will be rewarded or punished for his actions. But Galen Strawson thinks that being morally responsible is impossible or in easy terms, the person is deterministic. There are different degrees of one being accountable for his or her actions, and what Strawson thinks is that being ultimately accountable is impossible. The Basic Argument that Strawson gives is that in order for a person to be morally responsible, one must be self-determining; but nothing is self-determining, by which he means that a person has no free-will to what he is doing. And hence he arrives at a conclusion, that no one can be morally responsible.