Miracles and moral culpability: how to murder your parishioners and get away with it
I argue that there exists a proportional relationship between degrees of moral culpability and degrees of probabiltity, where the more an agent believes her actions will result in certain consequences, the more morally culpable she is for these consequences. I assert that this degree of probability...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2008
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 239-249 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Belief in miracles
/ Accountability
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCA Ethics |
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| Summary: | I argue that there exists a proportional relationship between degrees of moral culpability and degrees of probabiltity, where the more an agent believes her actions will result in certain consequences, the more morally culpable she is for these consequences. I assert that this degree of probability is necessarily diminished by the existence of active supernatural powers. Consequently, agents who believe in such powers are less morally culpable than agents who do not. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | In: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946808094344 |