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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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Merit and Reward

Merit and Reward

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(p.64) 4 Merit and Reward
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Responsibility and Atonement
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Richard Swinburne (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0198248490.003.0005

Supererogatory actions include both favours to others, and creative acts benefiting directly only the agent. A favour creates an obligation on the recipient, minimally to express gratitude. Creative acts create an obligation on the community that has nurtured the agent, minimally to respect him. Supererogatory actions give their agent merit, objective or subjective.

Keywords:   community, gratitude, merit, respect, supererogatory action

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