The Relationship Between Effort and Moral Worth: Three Amendments to Sorensen’s Model

Kelly Sorensen defends a model of the relationship between effort and moral worth in which the effort exerted in performing a morally desirable action contributes positively to the action’s moral worth, but the effort required to perform the action detracts from its moral worth. I argue that Sorense...

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Main Author: Douglas, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2014
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2014, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 325-334
Further subjects:B Kelly Sorensen
B Effort
B Moral Character
B Moral Worth
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