Going above and beyond? Early reasoning about which moral acts are best

U Khan, M Jaffer-Diaz, A Najafizadeh, C Starmans - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Philosophers and theologians have long distinguished between acts a good person is
obliged to do, and those that are supererogatory—going above and beyond what is …

Das muss ich nicht tun

ML Raters - Das Argument der Supererogation und die Grenzen …, 2022 - Springer
Die meisten Argumente der Angewandten Ethik sind gut erforscht. So hat Dieter Birnbacher
in seiner scharfsinnigen Abhandlung Tun und Unterlassen von 1995 gezeigt, dass die …

The Cautionary Account of Supererogation

SM Eslami, A Archer - The Philosophical Quarterly, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The problem of supererogation has attracted significant attention from contemporary moral
philosophers. In this paper, we show that this problem was outlined in different terms in the …

Partiality Traps and our Need for Risk-Aware Ethics and Epistemology

G Axtell - Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality - taylorfrancis.com
Virtue theories can plausibly be argued to have important advantages over normative ethical
theories which prescribe strict impartiality in moral judgment or neglect people's special …

What's the Use of Non-moral Supererogation?

A Archer - Handbook of Supererogation, 2023 - Springer
While moral philosophers have paid significant attention to the concept of moral
supererogation, far less attention has been paid to the possibility that supererogation may …