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Responsibility and Atonement

Richard Swinburne

Print publication date: 1989

Print ISBN-13: 9780198248491

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0198248490.001.0001

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Moral Responsibility and Weakness of Will

Moral Responsibility and Weakness of Will

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(p.34) 2 Moral Responsibility and Weakness of Will
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Responsibility and Atonement
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DOI:10.1093/0198248490.003.0003

Agents are praiseworthy for doing what they believe to be supererogatory, blameworthy for doing what they believe to be wrong. To have a belief that some action is morally good involves having some desire (inclination) to do it. But we evince weakness of will when we yield to a stronger desire to do what we believe to be not the best action.

Keywords:   Aquinas, blame, desire, Thomas Nagel, praise, weakness of will

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