Wolf's "Asymmetrical Freedom": Conditional Responsibility, Ethical Theory, and Marx's Synthesis of Teleology and Deontology
Susan Wolf has a really novel contribution to action theory (free will, determinism, etc.), a fact I've just now noticed after sort of half-paying attention to her work in the Free Will class I took at Catholic U. My friend "Crisp" (not using real names) is working on a paper on Wolf's famous "Moral Saints" piece, and I've always been into analytic action theory as one of a handful of side-pieces to my German continental malarkey, so I read her piece "Asymmetrical Freedom," and it really stuck with me. Key parts of it--parts I think are central to the piece and not ancillary--suggest novel commitments to certain normative ethical theories. I'll get into the Marxian part of this later on, and hopefully I will be persuasive enough that readers will be relieved to see I am not predictably "shoehorning" my politics into a poorly-matched area of philosophy again. *** Commitment to normative ethical theories is something that is not oft...