Mind Your Own Business: Reflective Aretaic Responsibility

The distinctive depth and seriousness of moral responsibility is often thought to stem from the seriousness of violating moral obligations. But this raises questions about being morally responsible for normative failure that does not belong to the deontic realm. This paper focuses on actions that we...

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Main Author: Schauber, Nancy E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2021
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2021, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 699-715
Further subjects:B Aretaic appraisal
B Moral Responsibility
B Life in the biographical sense
B Self-disclosure
B Moral Agency
B Practical identity
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