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A Defense of the Cautionary Approach to Supererogation

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
How can moral theory make room for the existence of acts that are beyond the call of duty? This issue has become known as the problem of supererogation, and philosophers have provided various accounts of how to solve it.
Alfred Archer, S. M. Eslami
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Nietzsche on the Banishment of Supererogation by Luther and its Influence on Modern Ethical Life and Moral Theorizing

Nietzsche und die Reformation, 2020
: Nietzsche on the Banishment of Supererogation by Luther and its In-fluence on Modern Ethical Life and Moral Theorizing. Much attention has been paid to Nietzsche ’ s refusal of obligation-centered moral theories (such as Kant-ian deontology and ...
R. Lopes
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Neo-Aristotelian Supererogation

Neither Heroes nor Saints, 2020
This chapter develops and defends the following neo-Aristotelian account of supererogation: An action is supererogatory iff it is overall virtuous and either (1) the omission of an overall virtuous action in that situation would not be overall vicious ...
Rebecca Stangl
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Is Neo-Aristotelian Supererogation Even Possible?

, 2020
This chapter considers and responds to five objections to the internal coherence of a neo-Aristotelian account of supererogation. I particular, it considers the objections that the account is incompatible with the doctrine of the mean, that it makes ...
Rebecca Stangl
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Supererogation.

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1983
Jonathan Dancy, D. Heyd
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Assimilating Supererogation

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2015
The interest in supererogation and supererogatory actions derives from the perception that there is something problematic about them. I shall argue that there is nothing problematic about them. The perception to the contrary arises from preconceptions common in ethical theory.
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Supererogation.

Noûs, 1985
Douglas N. Walton, David Heyd
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Beneficence and Supererogation

1992
According to standard definitions of supererogation, acts are supererogatory if and only if they are neither morally obligatory nor morally prohibited, but nevertheless have moral value (are morally good, etc.).’ While philosophers generally agree about what “supererogatory” means, however, they differ widely in their views regarding both the existence
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