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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Harman, Elizabeth | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-25T14:49:53Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-25T14:49:53Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Harman, Elizabeth. "Morally permissible moral mistakes." Ethics 126, no. 2 (2016): 366-393. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0014-1704 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr1vx0627v | - |
dc.description.abstract | Does it ever happen that there are things we shouldn’t do and the reasons we shouldn’t do them are moral reasons, yet doing them is not morally wrong? Surprisingly, yes. I argue for a category that has not been recognized by moral theorists: morally permissible moral mistakes. Sometimes (but far from always) a supererogatory action is the thing a person should do; in failing to act, one makes a morally permissible moral mistake. Recognizing the category of morally permissible moral mistakes solves a puzzle about supererogation, expands the universe of possible moral views, and shows some apparently inconsistent moral views to be consistent. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 366 - 393 | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ethics | en_US |
dc.rights | Final published version. This is an open access article. | en_US |
dc.title | Morally Permissible Moral Mistakes | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | doi:10.1086/683539 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1539-297X | - |
pu.type.symplectic | http://www.symplectic.co.uk/publications/atom-terms/1.0/journal-article | en_US |
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