ABSTRACT
Freedom is nothing but the absence of certain conditions the presence of which would make moral condemnation or punishment inappropriate. This chapter talks about restoring the agent's freedom. But the restoring of freedom means bringing it about that the agent's behaviour shall be intelligible in terms of conscious purposes rather than in terms only of unconscious purposes The chapter considers occasions for resentment: situations in which one person is offended or injured by the action of another and in which—in the absence of special considerations—the offended person might naturally or normally be expected to feel resentment. It shows, in the case of resentment, how one class of considerations may show the appearance to be mere appearance, and hence inhibit resentment, without inhibiting, or displacing, the sort of demand of which resentment can be an expression, without in any way tending to make us suspend our ordinary inter-personal attitudes to the agent.
