Seminars in Moral Philosophy Week 3 MT12
| Event Name | Seminars in Moral Philosophy Week 3 MT12 |
| Start Date | 22nd Oct 2012 4:30pm |
| End Date | 22nd Oct 2012 6:30pm |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Description | Speaker: Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes) Title: Action in Ethics Venue: Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG Abstract: It is said that we must hate the sin and not the sinner. But what about the sinning? This paper argues that most moral philosophy lacks a coherent notion of action. I propose an account which entails a fundamental distinction between doing the right (or wrong) thing and acting rightly (or wrongly). I next consider some tempting ways of understanding this distinction (e.g. in terms of types vs. tokens, the evaluative vs. the deontic, etc.) before concluding that the latter phenomenon - but not the former - is deeply interconnected with our motivational sets. Webpage: Seminars in Moral Philosophy |
