Acting for the Right Reasons

This essay examines the thought that our right actions have moral worth only if we perform them for the right reasons. On the face of it, views about the conditions of moral worth seem independent of what first-order moral views we hold. That is, we can debate what else must be true of right acti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markovits, Julia
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Duke University Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52641