f consequential luck is the way actions and decisions

A student may decide that he will not study for a specific exam because he intends to cheat off his neighbor's paper. However, upon arriving to class he finds that all the seats but one in the front of the classroom are taken. The student, who had every intention to cheat no finds himself unable to look at anyone's paper and must take the test on his own. This is an example of moral luck. According to Kant the student should be judged as having committed a moral wrong because Kant believes that moral acts must be judged on good or bad will. The student definitely had bad will in this case, however any Consequentalist would say the consequences have shown that no wrong was committed.

A Kantian moral outlook appears to deny the relevance of moral luck because Kant judges actions on the will alone. "Even if it should happen that, by a particular unfortunate fate....and even if the greatest effort should not avail it to achieve anything...as something that had its full worth in itself." Consequences of actions are not important to a Kantian. Only the actual

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