Willful Ignorance
Michelle Moody-Adams suggests that the main obstacle to moral progress in social practices is the tendency to widespread affected ignorance of what can and should already be known. This explanation is promising, though to understand it we need to know what willful (affected, motivated, strategic)...
| Published in: | Ethical theory and moral practice |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2017]
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| In: |
Ethical theory and moral practice
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| RelBib Classification: | NCA Ethics VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Affected
B Willful B Motivated B Strategic B Ignorance B Inconvenience |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Michelle Moody-Adams suggests that the main obstacle to moral progress in social practices is the tendency to widespread affected ignorance of what can and should already be known. This explanation is promising, though to understand it we need to know what willful (affected, motivated, strategic) ignorance actually is. This paper presents a novel analysis of this concept, which builds upon Moody-Adams (1994) and is contrasted with a recent account by Lynch (2016). |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-016-9722-9 |