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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Main Author: Luck, Morgan 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2008
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 239-249
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Belief in miracles / Accountability
IxTheo Classification:NCA Ethics
Online Access: Volltext (doi)

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