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Reactive Attitudes

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Strawson's reactive attitudes: resentment, gratitude, and indignation are built into human relationships—responsibility practices need no metaphysical license to continue.

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Even a convinced determinist bristles at betrayal. Strawson argues the bristling, not a theory, is where responsibility lives.

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The move relocates the debate rather than ending it: critics ask whether attitudes can settle what they presuppose.