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Supererogation and Optimisation

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2022
This paper examines three approaches to the relationship between our moral reasons to bear costs for others’ sake before and beyond the call of duty. Symmetry holds that you are required to optimise your beneficial sacrifices even when they are genuinely
Christian Barry, Seth Lazar
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A Qualified Account of Supererogation: Toward a Better Conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility

Business Ethics Quarterly, 2020
Some firms are initiating pro-stakeholder activities and policies that transcend conventional corporate social responsibility (CSR) conceptions and seem inconsistent with their business interests or economic responsibilities. These initiatives, which are
Antonio Tencati   +2 more
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Supererogation, dual-role views, and the logic of reasons

The Philosophical Quarterly
Intuitively, one can do more than morality requires. Thus, you seem to do more than morality requires—in jargon, you supererogate—when you knowingly let grave harm come to you to save a stranger’s life.
Aleks Knoks
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Caution and supererogation: a reply to Eslami and Archer

The Philosophical Quarterly
Seyyed Mohsen Eslami and Alfred Archer have argued for what they call the cautionary account of supererogation. According to this account, an action is supererogatory iff it involves exercising caution in doing the right thing in cases where the agent ...
Alireza Kazemi
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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 ...
Rogério 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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