dc.contributor.author | Markovits, Julia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-18T15:45:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-18T15:45:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-03 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-8116 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-0883 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76301 | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay explores the question of how to be good. My starting point is
a thesis about moral worth that I’ve defended in the past: roughly, that an action is
morally worthy if and only it is performed for the reasons why it is right. While I
think that account gets at one important sense of moral goodness, I argue here that it
fails to capture several ways of being worthy of admiration on moral grounds. Moral
goodness is more multi-faceted. My title is intended to capture that multi-facetedness:
the essay examines saintliness, heroism, and sagacity. The variety of our
common-sense moral ideals underscores the inadequacy of any one account of
moral admirableness, and I hope to illuminate the distinct roles these ideals play in
our everyday understanding of goodness. Along the way, I give an account of what
makes actions heroic, of whether such actions are supererogatory, and of what, if
anything, is wrong with moral deference. At the close of the essay, I begin to
explore the flipside of these ideals: villainy. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Springer Science + Business Media B.V. | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-012-9883-x | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | Markovits via Michelle Baildon | en_US |
dc.title | Saints, heroes, sages, and villains | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Markovits, Julia. “Saints, Heroes, Sages, and Villains.” Philosophical Studies 158.2 (2012): 289–311. Web. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy | en_US |
dc.contributor.approver | Markovits, Julia | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Markovits, Julia | |
dc.relation.journal | Philosophical Studies | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Markovits, Julia | en |
mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |