ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that in the context of the free will debate, moral responsibility by a person for a state of affairs is constituted by the relevance of that state of affairs to the determination of the agent worth of the person. L. A. Blum, an eloquent advocate of an anti-Kantian position, insists repeatedly upon the legitimacy of the moral assessment of psychological states, including emotions and attitudes, yet withholds judgments of moral praise and blame, treating the latter as appropriate only to the products of a free will. Moral luck, the fact that a person can be good or bad in virtue of circumstances he is not responsible for, and the sort of character he has might well be due to circumstances beyond his control, has been accepted by many and is congenial to the compatibilist.
