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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Supererogation."”.
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Supererogation : definitions, features and characteristics
… the definitions, features and characteristics of supererogation. In the president's address to the 1984 meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Kai Nielsen reviewed the main trends of post-war philosophical inquiry from Wittgenstein onwards and concluded that philosophical studies were …
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Supererogation : definitions, features and characteristics
… the definitions, features and characteristics of supererogation. In the president's address to the 1984 meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Kai Nielsen reviewed the main trends of post-war philosophical inquiry from Wittgenstein onwards and concluded that philosophical studies were …
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Christianity, the Duty to Assist Others, and Supererogation
… the first in the history of philosophy to treat supererogation in a systematic manner. Arguing that the traditional threefold classification system consisting of <em>duties</em>, <em>permissible acts</em>, and <em>wrong acts</em> was insufficient, he went on to propose a fourth category of moral …
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What we owe to ourselves : essays on rights and supererogation
… one that we need if we are to unify rights and supererogation into an impartial moral vision.
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An evaluation of the modest hero objection and stringency as a solution in the debate over supererogation
… a commonly-raised objection to the inclusion of supererogation as a category of moral action. The 'modest hero' objection (as it is here called) maintains that since the moral agent praised for a supererogatory act tends to respond modestly, that she was merely "doing her duty," the bar of duty …
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Essays on obligation
In the first chapter, "Supererogation and Defenses of Modest Moral Demands," I argue that a range of recent approaches to defending the "ordinary morality" view that the demands of morality are fairly modest make it hard to see how there could be any supererogatory acts, and therefore sacrifice one …
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Diachronic Choice in Ethics
… such views. Chapter 6 concerns the ethics of supererogation. A question about supererogation that has garnered some attention recently is: how much discretion does morality give us to act sub-optimally when we go beyond what is required of us? In this chapter, I discuss a moderate answer to …
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Navigating Morality, Agency, and Emotion in Interpersonal Contexts
… chapter, for a distinction between grades of supererogation: I intend to distinguish between nodes on a continuum of moral repair. I argue that there is a morally salient difference between the acceptance of an apology and the forgiveness of a wrongdoer, and while both are supererogatory acts, …