 Three things suggest that we have a lot more creative freedom in this context than we now realize. First of all, contrary to the assumptions of many contemporary philosophers, the modern notion of moral responsibility is not moral responsibility per se. Instead, it is a distinctly Kantian notion of moral responsibility that has at least a trio of respectable counterparts, namely, the Aristotelian, Christian, and pragmatist notions of moral responsibility (Smiley 1992).