Author: David Heyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: philosophy, studies, cambridge, supererogation
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1982-07-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0521239354
ISBN-13: 9780521239356

Actions that go ’beyond the call of duty’ are a common though not commonplace part of everyday life - in heroism, self-sacrifice, mercy, volunteering, or simply in small deeds of generosity and consideration. Almost universally they enjoy a high and often unique esteem and significance, and are regarded as, somehow, peculiarly good. Yet it is not easy to explain how - for if duty exhausts the moral life there is no scope to praise supererogatory acts, and if the consequentialist is right there are no grounds for awarding them a special status. However, despite the distinctiveness o

Author: Ulla Wessels
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Keywords: supererogation, german, der, struktur, samariterin, zur, gute
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-02
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 3110174901
ISBN-13: 9783110174908