1992
DOI: 10.2307/2185045
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Toward Fin de siecle Ethics: Some Trends

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“…In such a situation the dictator has the actual obligation to donate since it 'is an obligation which, in a particular situation, is not superseded by any other obligation' (Crawford 1969, 316). 11 If the particular situation is such that donating cannot be said to be an obligation at all, the moral distance will be maximum. Moral distance is not related to the personal closeness between the dictator and recipient: the dictator can donate more money to a stranger than to an acquaintance if the stranger needs it, however close they may be.…”
Section: Moral Dilemma and Consequentialist Reasonsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In such a situation the dictator has the actual obligation to donate since it 'is an obligation which, in a particular situation, is not superseded by any other obligation' (Crawford 1969, 316). 11 If the particular situation is such that donating cannot be said to be an obligation at all, the moral distance will be maximum. Moral distance is not related to the personal closeness between the dictator and recipient: the dictator can donate more money to a stranger than to an acquaintance if the stranger needs it, however close they may be.…”
Section: Moral Dilemma and Consequentialist Reasonsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Hoffman et al, eight per cent of the dictators donated half or less than half of the money. 11 Or in Zimmerman's words, S has the obligation to do A when all other worlds are 'deontically inferior to some accessible world in which S does A' (Zimmerman 1996, 26). When the moral distance between the dictator and the recipient is null, donating is deontically superior to not donating -in such a situation not donating is a world that is accessible to the dictator and deontically inferior.…”
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“…On pourra bien sûr continuer à combattre de telles atrocités, mais on ne pourra guère, de manière cohérente, 6. Pour une comparaison des différentes formes de non-cognitivisme, voir Darwall, Gibbard et Railton (1992), p. 144-152.…”
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“…4 My central aim is to argue for a specific claim. I will argue that even though, in these theories, to be a moral agent (and 1 I have borrowed this term from Darwall et al (1992), and use it to refer to theories who attempt to give an ultimate justification for categorical duties, by showing that these are grounded in practical reason. There is a lot of debate about how Kant's own moral philosophy should be interpreted.…”
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