ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequence chapters of this book. The book is about a fundamental part of what it means to be human beings and to have moral relations with other human beings. It considers responsibility for unintended mistakes, especially those arising from recklessness and negligence. The book then moves to the next stage of one of the branches of the blame game: the agent accepts causal and moral responsibility, and indeed feels badly enough about it to apologize. It argues that punishment involves attempting to make ones experience the full extent of that responsibility. The book then concerns the topic of moral luck and examines the different forms of luck, and ask to what degree this might challenge people's understanding of moral responsibility. For many philosophers and laypeople alike, the problem of understanding moral responsibility is closely tied up with the problem of free will.
