Moral Worth and Moral Belief
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2023-01-01
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SJR: 1.725
CiteScore: 4.1
Impact factor: 2.4
ISSN: 00141704, 1539297X
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10.1086/722120
Philosophy
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According to some, when you do the right thing, your moral beliefs make no difference to your act’s moral worth. Huckleberry Finn believes he is doing something wrong in helping Jim escape slavery. Yet his act reflects well on him. Some conclude that acting rightly reflects just as well on you whether you believe you are doing something right, wrong, supererogatory, or neutral. I argue against this. Doing the right thing with certain moral beliefs can diminish the moral worth of doing it. In such cases, you do the right thing in the wrong spirit.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1086/722120
UR - https://doi.org/10.1086/722120
TI - Moral Worth and Moral Belief
T2 - Ethics
AU - Grant, James
PY - 2023
DA - 2023/01/01
PB - University of Chicago Press
SP - 216-230
IS - 2
VL - 133
SN - 0014-1704
SN - 1539-297X
ER -
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@article{2023_Grant,
author = {James Grant},
title = {Moral Worth and Moral Belief},
journal = {Ethics},
year = {2023},
volume = {133},
publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
month = {jan},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1086/722120},
number = {2},
pages = {216--230},
doi = {10.1086/722120}
}
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Grant, James. “Moral Worth and Moral Belief.” Ethics, vol. 133, no. 2, Jan. 2023, pp. 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1086/722120.