Saints, heroes, sages, and villains

This essay explores the question of how to be good. My starting point is a thesis about moral worth that I’ve defended in the past: roughly, that an action is morally worthy if and only it is performed for the reasons why it is right. While I think that account gets at one important sense of mora...

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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: Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76301