ABSTRACT

This chapter argues that the lack of control conception of luck in the Standard View is the best account of luck in moral luck, because only it preserves this at least apparent paradox without also introducing new problems. The general idea is that the lack of control conception of luck is both necessary and sufficient to adequately generate the apparent paradox. The chapter maintains that although the Augmentation View passes the sunrise test and generates an apparent paradox, it is also an inadequate account of luck in moral luck, because it introduces new problems that obscure the paradox that is to be solved. Thus, lack of control is sufficient as an account of luck in moral luck. The chapter concludes that the lack of control conception of luck must be a part of an account of moral luck to satisfy the paradox criterion.