ABSTRACT
An exponent of the view of moral libertarianism typically starts his argument with the situation of moral choice, the final decision between duty and temptation. He urges us to place ourselves imaginatively in this position, and to report on what we would then say. All other choices are radically different. At any given time, the moral libertarian argues, we have a set of dispositions which may be called our formed character. The author now turns to the account which the theory gives of moral worth. When such a theory considers the question of exculpating a prima facie wrongful act, it can and must allow two and only two types of case. The first is where the strongest desire was just too strong to be resisted, as with a drug addict. The second is where no moral challenge arises, because the agent's reasoning does not in fact present the situation to him as a case of moral temptation.
