Explanations of moral failure
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This introductory chapter consists mainly of an account of the way I use the terms 'explanation', 'moral', and 'failure'. The explanations discussed feature in everyday life and are not grounded on scientific accounts of human personality and behaviour. The term 'moral' has a narrow and a broad application deriving from two types of moral code. On the narrow view moral failure is closely tied to wrong-doing, while on the broad view it arises from an insufficiency in what a person makes of his...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Mallock, David | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-22T23:41:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-22T23:41:09Z | |
dc.identifier.other | b12877979 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10518 | |
dc.description.abstract | This introductory chapter consists mainly of an account of the way I use the terms 'explanation', 'moral', and 'failure'. The explanations discussed feature in everyday life and are not grounded on scientific accounts of human personality and behaviour. The term 'moral' has a narrow and a broad application deriving from two types of moral code. On the narrow view moral failure is closely tied to wrong-doing, while on the broad view it arises from an insufficiency in what a person makes of his life as a whole. Both these types of failure will be discussed in the thesis, The failures with which I am concerned are restricted in two ways: (1) they cover only cases in which the agent tried or at least wanted to do what he failed to do; (2) they presuppose that the agent was able to do the deed in question. Some comments are made on the approach to Ethics employed in this thesis. It is maintained that a necessary preliminary to building a successful moral theory is the careful examination of actual moral experience, and accordingly this thesis is descriptive in its main emphasis. The chapter concludes with a brief account of the arrangement and structure of the thesis… | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.title | Explanations of moral failure | |
dc.type | Thesis (PhD) | |
local.contributor.supervisor | Herbst, Peter | |
dcterms.valid | 1966 | |
local.description.notes | Supervisor: Professor Peter Herbst. This thesis has been made available through exception 200AB to the Copyright Act. | |
local.description.refereed | Yes | |
local.type.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | |
dc.date.issued | 1966 | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Australian National University | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.25911/5d78d47eb305c | |
local.identifier.proquest | Yes | |
local.mintdoi | mint | |
Collections | Open Access Theses |
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01Front_Mallock.pdf | Front Matter | 160.95 kB | Adobe PDF | |
02Whole_Mallock.pdf | Whole Thesis | 7.32 MB | Adobe PDF |
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