A New Defense of the Motive of Duty Thesis
According to the Motive of Duty Thesis, a necessary condition for an action to have moral worth is that it be motivated at least in part by a normative assessment of the action. However, this thesis has been subject to two powerful objections. It has been accused of over-intellectualizing moral agen...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2018, Volume: 21, Issue: 5, Pages: 1163-1179 |
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Motive of duty
B Guise of the good B Moral Worth |
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