Right Act, Virtuous Motive

In Heather Battaly, Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 57–71 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The Higher‐Level Account: Consequentialist Virtues The Higher‐Level Account: Deontological Virtues References.

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right act and virtuous motive ‐ relation between rightness and virtue   right acts and virtuous motives ‐ and their relationship   rightness of acts, independently of virtue ‐ identifying virtuous motives, as those that tend to result in right acts   second and opposite view, being virtue‐ethical ‐ virtuousness of motives, determined independently of rightness   higher‐level account ‐ and consequentialist virtues   act‐consequentialism, identifying right acts ‐ directly by relation to the good   Sidgwick's example of a prosecutor ‐ prosecuting a defendant from personal malice, may by consequentialist standards be right   higher‐level account ‐ underwriting a number of connections, between virtuous motivation and right action   limitation on role of virtue in deliberation ‐ for virtue expressed, and not to other people's virtue   higher‐level account, fitting into deontological theories ‐ tie between virtue and right action

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2011

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9781444391398   9781444335620

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10.1002/9781444391398.ch4

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original Hurka, Thomas (2010) "Right Act, Virtuous Motive". Metaphilosophy 41(1-2):58-72
reprint Hurka, Thomas (2010) "Right act, virtuous motive". In Battaly, Heather, Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic, pp. 58-72: Wiley-Blackwell (2010)

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