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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2016]
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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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