Goodness without qualification

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-104

  Wielenberg, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 11544276350     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004211725065     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, transl. H.J. Paton (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964), p. 61.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., p. 62.
4. "Two Distinctions in Goodness," The Philosophical Review, XCII, 2 (April 1983).
5. "Two Distinctions in Goodness," The Philosophical Review, XCII, 2 (April 1983).
6. Ibid, p. 178.
7. Ibid., p. 170.
8. "Leads to" here is to be construed broadly to include both causing and making more likely.
9. Ibid., p. 178.
10. Ibid., p. 179.
11. Ibid., p. 178. In this passage Korsgaard speaks of unconditional goodness. She is discussing what I have been calling "goodness without qualification." Throughout this paper, I use "unconditionally good" and "good without qualification" interchangeably, as I understand them to express the same concept.
12. Ibid., p. 179.
13. Kant, op. cit., p. 61.
14. Ibid.
15. Korsgaard, op. cit., p. 179.
16. Ibid., p. 186.
17. Ibid., p. 180.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 182.
20. Ibid., pp. 182-183.
21. Kant, op. cit., p. 61.
22. Korsgaard, op. cit., p. 187.
23. Ibid., p. 184.
24. Ibid., p. 188.
25. Ibid., p. 169.
26. This example is Fred Feldman's.
27. Korsgaard, op. cit., p. 178.
28. Kant, op. cit., p. 62.
29. "The Defeat of Good and Evil," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, volume XLII, 1968-69.
30. Ibid., p. 30.
31. Ibid., p. 31.
32. Kant, op. cit., p. 62.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., p. 61.
35. Ibid.
36. I wish to thank Fred Feldman for his helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.