Supererogation
According to its simplest definition, supererogation means freely and intentionally doing good beyond the requirements of duty. A more complex definition incorporates the responses of third parties: the supererogatory act is one that is praiseworthy if performed, but not blameworthy if omitted, as l...
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cop. 2015
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| Colección: | Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The agents, acts and attitudes of supererogation / Christopher Cowley
- Can virtue ethics account for supererogation? / David Heyd
- Beyond obligation: reasons and supererogation / Michael Ferry
- Disjunctive duties and supererogatory sets of actions / Matthias Brinkmann
- Saints, heroes and moral necessity / Alfred Archer
- Is supererogation more than just costly sacrifice? / Elizabeth Drummond Young
- Adopting roles: generosity and presumptuousness / Rowland Stout
- Supererogation and the relationship between religious and secular ethics; some perspectives drawn from Thomas Aquinas and John of the Cross / Mark Wynn
- Religion, forgiveness and humanity / Christopher Hamilton
- Beyond obligation? Jean-Marie Guyau on life and ethics / Keith Ansell-Pearson
- Assimilating supererogation / D.K. Levy.
