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2022
Abstract Beneficence is defined as concrete efforts that are designed to improve the situation of a person who is in need. Researchers have proposed a plethora of terms that are like beneficence, including charity, generosity, prosociality, and providing social support to others.
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Abstract Beneficence is defined as concrete efforts that are designed to improve the situation of a person who is in need. Researchers have proposed a plethora of terms that are like beneficence, including charity, generosity, prosociality, and providing social support to others.
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Social Philosophy and Policy, 1987
I begin with a note about moral goodness as a quality, disposition, or trait of a person or human being. This has at least two different senses, one wider and one narrower. Aristotle remarked that the Greek term we translate as justice sometimes meant simply virtue or goodness as applied to a person and sometimes meant only a certain virtue or kind of ...
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I begin with a note about moral goodness as a quality, disposition, or trait of a person or human being. This has at least two different senses, one wider and one narrower. Aristotle remarked that the Greek term we translate as justice sometimes meant simply virtue or goodness as applied to a person and sometimes meant only a certain virtue or kind of ...
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2022
Abstract This chapter explores the Kantian imperfect duty to promote the happiness of others, or the duty of beneficence. In Kant's framework, our reasons have to be tied to our obligations to our fellow rational agents. Technically, Kant categorizes beneficence as a duty of love.
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Abstract This chapter explores the Kantian imperfect duty to promote the happiness of others, or the duty of beneficence. In Kant's framework, our reasons have to be tied to our obligations to our fellow rational agents. Technically, Kant categorizes beneficence as a duty of love.
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2016
ABSTRACT:Simple acts of kindness that are performed sincerely and with evident good will can also, paradoxically, be perceived as deeply insulting by the people we succeed in benefiting. When we are moved to help someone out of genuine concern for her, when we have no intention to humiliate or embarrass her and when we succeed at benefiting her, how ...
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ABSTRACT:Simple acts of kindness that are performed sincerely and with evident good will can also, paradoxically, be perceived as deeply insulting by the people we succeed in benefiting. When we are moved to help someone out of genuine concern for her, when we have no intention to humiliate or embarrass her and when we succeed at benefiting her, how ...
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Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2011
AbstractBeneficence is usually regarded as adequate when it results in an actual benefit for a beneficiary and satisfies her self-chosen end. However, beneficence that satisfies these conditions can harm beneficiaries' free agency, particularly when they are robustly dependent on benefactors.
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AbstractBeneficence is usually regarded as adequate when it results in an actual benefit for a beneficiary and satisfies her self-chosen end. However, beneficence that satisfies these conditions can harm beneficiaries' free agency, particularly when they are robustly dependent on benefactors.
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