Agent-Basing, Consequences, and Realized Motives

According to agent-based approaches to virtue ethics, the rightness of an action is a function of the motives which prompted that action. If those motives were morally praiseworthy, then the action was right; if they were morally blameworthy, the action was wrong. Many critics find this approach pro...

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Main Author: Walsh, Joseph P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2016]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 649-661
IxTheo Classification:NCA Ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Right action
B Virtue Ethics
B Agent-basing
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