 Moral Responsibility has traditionally been understood to entail moral—and not just social or legal—blameworthiness and moral blameworthiness has, during the modern period, been understood to be an aspect of an individual’s own moral agency rather than a judgment that we ourselves make on the basis of our own social and legal standards. Hence, those who search for the conditions of moral responsibility generally insist that an agent has herself caused—freely willed—that for which she is being held morally responsible. Marion Smiley (1992) argues that this has not always been the case but is rather a modern development.