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...
Main Author: | Markovits, Julia |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
Published: |
Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76301 |
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