Free-will doctrine legitimizes blaming powerless people for their own condition.
Evidence
This was the image he contrasted with a way of constituting society in which the notion of the freedom of the will made the incrimination of powerless members of society legitimate; and which he also contrasted with a philosophical tradition that linked freedom and responsibility with one another in a spirit of repression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 639
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School work on the authoritarian personality and the incrimination of victims. — connects to: Moral blame for failing to will freedom depends on access that oppression can foreclose — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 654; People rationalize oppressive arrangements that harm them rather than protect their own interests — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911; Attributing blame to mental illness rather than guns is a moral disengagement strategy (+5 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that freedom-and-responsibility talk functions as a mechanism of social control rather than liberation is worth sitting with.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Moral blame for failing to will freedom depends on access that oppression can foreclose — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 654; People rationalize oppressive arrangements that harm them rather than protect their own interests — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911; Attributing blame to mental illness rather than guns is a moral disengagement strategy (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Moral blame for failing to will freedom depends on access that oppression can foreclose
#corroborates(0.92) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 654 - Powerlessness does not explain why a specific group is blamed
#complicates(0.74)