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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Auteurs: Taliaferro, Charles 1952- (Auteur) ; Knuths, Emily (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain 2023
Dans: TheoLogica
Année: 2023, Volume: 7, Numéro: 2, Pages: 1-15
Classifications IxTheo:KAB Christianisme primitif
KAJ Époque contemporaine
NCA Éthique
TB Antiquité
VA Philosophie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Moral Realism
B Socrates
B Subjectivism
B Bernard Williams
B Plato
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:2593-0265
Contient:Enthalten in: TheoLogica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.14428/thl.v7i2.66163