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...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
2023
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TheoLogica
Año: 2023, Volumen: 7, Número: 2, Páginas: 1-15 |
| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | KAB Cristianismo primitivo KAJ Época contemporánea NCA Ética TB Antigüedad VA Filosofía |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Moral Realism
B Socrates B Subjectivism B Bernard Williams B Plato |
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| Sumario: | 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 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v7i2.66163 |