The ethical and praxeological conceptions of an act and its evaluation

The conception of an act and its evaluation constitute the most interesting and important moral subject which consists of a complex set of theoretical and practical issues. The article includes St. Thomas’ conception of the definition of the goodness of an act, Tatarkiewicz’s theory of rightness of...

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Main Author: Ewa Podrez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2017-12-01
Series:Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/annales/article/view/4288
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description The conception of an act and its evaluation constitute the most interesting and important moral subject which consists of a complex set of theoretical and practical issues. The article includes St. Thomas’ conception of the definition of the goodness of an act, Tatarkiewicz’s theory of rightness of an act as a source of its evaluation as well as Kotarbinski’s considerations which deal with the analysis of an act from an efficiency perspective. They have all contributed to the definitione of an act in its several variants and provided the possibility of classification of evaluation of an act on the ethical and praxeological plane.
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spelling doaj.art-4dedacfad03342d6824b5550c7ea6bb82022-12-21T19:12:48ZengLodz University PressAnnales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym1899-22262353-48692017-12-01207394910.18778/1899-2226.20.7.034288The ethical and praxeological conceptions of an act and its evaluationEwa Podrez0Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Faculty of Christian Philosophy, Institute of PhilosophyThe conception of an act and its evaluation constitute the most interesting and important moral subject which consists of a complex set of theoretical and practical issues. The article includes St. Thomas’ conception of the definition of the goodness of an act, Tatarkiewicz’s theory of rightness of an act as a source of its evaluation as well as Kotarbinski’s considerations which deal with the analysis of an act from an efficiency perspective. They have all contributed to the definitione of an act in its several variants and provided the possibility of classification of evaluation of an act on the ethical and praxeological plane.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/annales/article/view/4288goodnessrightnessefficiency
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The ethical and praxeological conceptions of an act and its evaluation
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efficiency
title The ethical and praxeological conceptions of an act and its evaluation
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