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2019
Abstract This chapter argues against the popular view that acting in accordance with one’s principles excuses moral wrongdoing. That is, if one is ignorant of the moral truth, and that ignorance explains one’s wrong actions in the right way, one shouldn’t be blamed for doing the wrong thing. One objection I raise is that there is no good
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Abstract This chapter argues against the popular view that acting in accordance with one’s principles excuses moral wrongdoing. That is, if one is ignorant of the moral truth, and that ignorance explains one’s wrong actions in the right way, one shouldn’t be blamed for doing the wrong thing. One objection I raise is that there is no good
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Morality and Ignorance of Fact
Philosophy, 1975A good deal of moral criticism employed in everyday life associates, in a variety of ways and in varying degrees of complexity, selfish behaviour and attitudes with a deficiency in what Dr Leavis calls ‘ethical sensibility’. A primitive ethical sensibility is a species of ignorance; it is to be unperceptive, muddled, superficial, undiscriminating and ...
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Culpability for Moral Ignorance
Abstract This chapter argues that moral ignorance implies lack of care of morally relevant considerations as predicted by quality-of-will theories of responsibility, and thus moral ignorance, as opposed to circumstantial ignorance, does not excuse wrongdoing.openaire +1 more source
Making Moral Mistakes: Buddhist Perspectives on Moral Ignorance and Moral Education
The Journal of Speculative PhilosophyABSTRACT There are many kinds of moral mistakes, including wrong actions (such as stealing, killing, lying, and so on), but also maintaining false beliefs about morality, moral misperceptions and misattention, and morally problematic ways of feeling and thinking.
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Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy
2016© 2017 Taylor & Francis. This edited collection focuses on the moral and social dimensions of ignorance-an undertheorized category in analytic philosophy. Contributors address such issues as the relation between ignorance and deception, ignorance as a moral excuse, ignorance as a legal excuse, and the relation between ignorance and moral character.
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Epistemic Ignorance and Moral Responsibility
Southwest Philosophy Review, 2020openaire +1 more source