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Der Begriff der Supererogation und das Problem moralischer Optionalität

Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie, 2017
Es gibt moralisch gute Handlungen, die über die Pflicht hinausgehen. Wer sie unterlässt, handelt nicht moralisch falsch, obwohl es moralisch besser wäre, sie auszuüben.
Hubert Schnüriger
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Heroic Virtues in Space Exploration: Everydayness and Supererogation on Earth and Beyond

Heroism Science An Interdisciplinary Journal
The space environment poses significant dangers and difficulties for human explorers—difficulties so great that it has been argued that space exploration should be exclusively conducted by automated spacecraft.
John N. Nielsen
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A critical note on sporting supererogation [PDF]

, 2021
Alfred Archer recently argued that there is good reason to think that sporting supererogation exists. In the present paper, I take a closer look at Archer’s two key cases from association football and his arguments in favour of positing that there is a ...
Steffen Borge
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The Suberogation Problem for Lei Zhong's Confucian Virtue Theory of Supererogation [PDF]

, 2019
A virtue-based theory of right action aims to explain deontic moral principles in terms of virtue and vice. For example, it may maintain the following account of moral obligation: It is morally obligatory for an agent A to ϕ in circumstances C if and ...
Ho, Tsung-Hsing
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Supererogation and the Limits of Moral Obligations. Guest Editor’s Preface [PDF]

, 2017
Do moral obligations include all the good that can be possibly achieved? Does every instance of the good always entail obligatory performance?
Grigoletto, Simone
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Supererogation Across Normative Domains

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2017
ABSTRACTThe phenomenon of moral supererogation—action that goes beyond what moral duty requires—is familiar. In this paper, I argue that the concept of supererogation is applicable beyond the moral domain. After an introductory section 1, I outline in section 2 what I take to be the structure of moral supererogation, explaining how it comes to be an ...
Brian Mcelwee
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Grotius on Natural Law and Supererogation

Journal of the history of philosophy, 2019
:This article provides a novel interpretation of Grotius’s conception of natural law. Prior interpretations have overlooked Grotius’s doctrine of supererogation and have hence misrepresented, in varying ways, the content of his law of nature and its ...
J. Olsthoorn
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In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
In moral philosophy, it is common to accept that some acts are beyond the call of duty, or supererogatory. Recently, it has been argued that there are also distinctly sporting forms of supererogation (Archer 2017). These arguments have been criticized by
Alfred Archer, Xiner Tao
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Supererogation: Feministische Perspektiven [PDF]

Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie
K. Naumann, M. Raters, K. Reinhardt
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An Adamsian Theory of Moral Obligations but without Divine Commands [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023
Theological Voluntarism is the view according to which certain moral properties or statuses have to be explained in terms of God’s commands, will, or other voluntary states of God.
Seyyed Abbas Kazemi Oskooei
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