Self-regarding supererogatory actions

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 487-498

  Kawall, Jason ^a  

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EID: 48449088957     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9833.00196     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. David Heyd, Supererogation: Its Status in Ethical Theory (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 115.
2. Nancy A. Stanlick, "The Nature and Value of Supererogatory Actions", Journal of Social Philosophy 30(1999):209-22, at 211.
3. Joan Straumanis, "Duties to Oneself: An Ethical Basis for Self-Liberation?" Journal of Social Philosophy 15(1984):1-13.
4. Russell A. Jacobs, "Obligation, Supererogation and Self-Sacrifice", Philosophy 62(1985):96-101, at 97.
5. See Elizabeth M. Pybus, "Saints and Heroes", Philosophy 57(1982):193-99;
6. Patricia M. McGoldrick, "Saints and Heroes: A Plea for the Supererogatory", Philosophy 59(1984):523-28;
7. and a later reply, Elizabeth M. Pybus, "A Plea for the Supererogatory: A Reply", Philosophy 61(1986):526-31.
8. Jacobs, "Obligation, Supererogation and Self-Sacrifice", 101.
9. McGoldrick, "Saints and Heroes", 525.
10. Pesky Flies, Environmental Ethics, and the Supererogatory", Environmental Ethics 18(1996):165-80.
11. See also J. O. Urmson, "Saints and Heroes", in Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed. A. I. Melden (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1958), 198-216:
12. and Roderick M. Chisholm, "Supererogation and Offense: A Conceptual Scheme for Ethics", Ratio 5(1963):1-14.
13. Gregory Mellema, Beyond the Call of Duty: Supererogation, Obligation, and Offense (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991), 19-20.
14. See Susan C. Hale, "Against Supererogation", American Philosophical Quarterly 28(1991):273-85.
15. Mellema, Beyond the Call of Duty, 22 (emphasis added).
16. See, for example, Linda Zagzebski, Virtues of the Mind (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 253-54;
17. Jonathan Dancy, Moral Reasons (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993), chap. 8;
18. and Philip Montague, "Acts, Agents, and Supererogation", American Philosophical Quarterly 26(1989):101-11.
19. See Samuel Scheffler, The Rejection of Consequentialism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982).
20. See Michael, "To Swat or Not to Swat", 180.
21. See Urmson, "Saints and Heroes", 205.
22. Barry Curtis, "The Supererogatory, the Foolish and the Morally Required", Journal of Value Inquiry 15(1981):311-18, at 313.
23. Curtis, "The Supererogatory, the Foolish, and the Morally Required", 314-15.
24. For a defense of many of the claims in this and the following paragraphs, see Michael Stocker, "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories", Journal of Philosophy 73(1976):453-66.
25. Stanlick, "The Nature and Value of Supererogatory Actions", 211.