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16In this paper, I explore our common-sense thinking about the relation between moral value, moral merit, and well-being. Starting from Ross’s observation that welfarist axiologies ignore our intuitions about desert, I focus on axiologies that take moral merit and well-being to be independent determinants of value. I distinguish three ways in which these axiologies can be formulated, and I then consider their application to the issue of punishment. The objection that they recommend penalties in ci…Read more
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Arizona State UniversityPhilosophy - School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious StudiesUndergraduate
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Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Applied Ethics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |