RT Article
T1 Moral Transformation and Duties of Beneficence
JF Sophia
VO 58
IS 3
SP 455
OP 473
A1 Rajczi, Alex
LA English
PB Springer Netherlands
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1688638555
AB Some ideas are at the heart of the world's great ethical and religious traditions, yet they play little or no role within certain debates in modern philosophical ethics. One such idea is that most of us have unreliable moral intuitions and we must transform ourselves into better people before we can reliably judge how to behave. This paper explores that idea by focusing on a transformative experience that I will call the moral experience. In the paper's initial sections, I describe the moral experience and explain why it constitutes a genuine transformation in ethical outlook. I then argue that the moral experience could thereby affect our views on certain contemporary ethical debates, illustrating those points with a discussion of the debate about global poverty.
K1 Beneficence
K1 Benevolence
K1 Global Poverty
K1 Moral Experience
K1 Transformation
DO 10.1007/s11841-017-0596-7