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That "Ought" Does Not Imply "Right": Why It Matters for Virtue Ethics
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy
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July 1, 2008
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Abstract
Virtue ethicists sometimes say that a right action is what a virtuous person would do, characteristically, in the circumstances. But some have objected recently that right action cannot be defined as what a virtuous person would do in the circumstances because there are circumstances in which a right action is possible but in which no virtuous person would be found. This objection moves from the premise that a given person ought to do an action that no virtuous person would do, to the conclusion that the action is a right action. I demon-strate that virtue ethicists distinguish "ought" from "right" and reject the assumption that "ought" implies "right." I then show how their ...
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