How Sinful Is Sin? How Vicious Is Vice? A Modest Defense of the Guise of the Good
We defend the guise of the good thesis in a tradition going back to Socrates and Plato, according to which persons act on the basis of what appears to them as good or the least bad or evil act available to them. This seems contrary to moral experience, but we defend the thesis against plausible coun...
| Published in: | TheoLogica |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
2023
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TheoLogica
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| RelBib Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCA Ethics TB Antiquity VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Moral Realism
B Socrates B Subjectivism B Bernard Williams B Plato |
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| Summary: | We defend the guise of the good thesis in a tradition going back to Socrates and Plato, according to which persons act on the basis of what appears to them as good or the least bad or evil act available to them. This seems contrary to moral experience, but we defend the thesis against plausible counter-examples in life as well as fiction. We contend that the thesis makes wrong-doing and vice intelligible, but still wrong, dysfunctional and horrific. |
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| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v7i2.66163 |