... of will is discussed and dismissed. Finally, it is argued that agents who manifest objectionable and commendable qualities of will at once are simultaneously both praise- and blameworthy for their actions. Actions can thus have ambivalent moral worth. praiseworthiness blameworthiness moral worth quality...

... generally, process human morality per se. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, brain activations during evaluation of moral beauty and depravity were investigated. Praiseworthiness for moral beauty was associated with activation in the orbitofrontal cortex, whereas blameworthiness for moral...

... responsibility Clarke Randolph Haji Ishtiyaque omissions praiseworthiness responsibility Watson Gary duty free will moral obligation Edwards Paul Frankfurt Henry holding morally responsible personhood punishment Schlick Moritz Strawson P F Strawsonian theory Fischer John Martin actions blame...

...0 26 02 1998 In the last chapter I ended with the suggestion that moral praiseworthiness and moral blameworthiness are closely affiliated with our “inner” attitudes; they are tied to our beliefs or perceptions about what is objectively obligatory or wrong, respectively, and not with what...

.... The second draws on conceptual connections between, first, blameworthiness and impermissibility and, second, praiseworthiness and permissibility. Since both impermissibility and permissibility presuppose freedom to do otherwise, and it is assumed that determinism precludes such freedom, responsibility...

...Zoë Johnson King, What Are We Praiseworthy For? In: Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics. Edited by: Ruth Chang and Amia Srinivasan, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864523.003.0009 This chapter suggests...

... as inadequate, and a radically different solution is offered in terms of a concept of reasons-sensitivity that is focused exclusively on actual causes, and that emphasizes the role played by absences of reasons. This chapter also contains a discussion of an asymmetry between praiseworthiness and blameworthiness...

... Feinberg Joel aboutness principle desert fittingness conditions Arpaly Nomy praiseworthiness subjective wrongness violations of obligation complex excuses responsibility accessibility action guidance Ross W D beliefs Strong Responsibility Constraint Accessibility helpfulness interpretation...

...Ways to be Blameworthy: Rightness, Wrongness, and Responsibility. Elinor Mason, Oxford University Press (2019). © Elinor Mason. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198833604.003.0004 This chapter defends the connection between subjective rightness and ordinary praiseworthiness. First, merely...

... for and against actions. This chapter explains some background assumptions about reasons, rightness, their relationship to each other, and their relationship to good deliberation and praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. It canvasses several possible views of these relationships, but argues that reasons...

... praiseworthiness right reasons Some right acts have what philosophers call moral worth. ¹ A morally worthy act manifests the agent’s virtuous motives such that they deserve credit for having acted rightly. ² And, for an agent to deserve credit for having acted rightly...

...In falling and staying in love, both attractiveness and praiseworthiness of traits and achievements are important. Regarding attraction, most people would be happy to be regarded as both beautiful and sexy. However, if choice must be made, they will probably choose beautiful, as it is broader...

... acted rightly. There is no room for luck. An act is only right if the agent is praiseworthy for it, and conversely, she is always blameworthy for acting wrongly, because to act wrongly just is to act from a bad will. In terms of the connection to moral responsibility, the traditional consequentialist...

...The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility is a collection of 33 articles by leading international scholars on the topic of moral responsibility and its main forms, praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. The articles in the volume provide a comprehensive survey on scholarship on this topic since...

... those of Plato and Socrates; and (c) plausible examples of praiseworthy and blameworthy activity. In typical dialectical fashion, Aristotle first generates conflicts between (a), (b), and (c), and then solves the conflicts by revising the initial considerations. He always solves conflicts by revising...

... a truncated portrait of our moral lives by largely ignoring responsibility for actions that merit praise and emulation. Through an examination of what is presupposed in the attitudes of gratitude and esteem, this chapter argues that praiseworthiness is not best understood as the mirror image...

...Arden Ali, Manifestations of Virtue In: Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 10. Edited by: Mark Timmons, Oxford University Press (2020). © Arden Ali. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198867944.003.0011 Few philosophers endorse a virtue theory of praiseworthiness...

... rationality praiseworthiness In the previous chapter I argued against the idea that we should treat factual uncertainty and normative uncertainty symmetrically. In this chapter I’ll assume for the sake of the argument that the arguments of the previous chapter are unsuccessful. The upshot of that would...

... of what sort of wrong action makes blame fitting. detached blameworthiness extended blameworthiness ordinary praise and blameworthiness pluralism praiseworthiness rightness subjective obligation wrongness methodology deontic concepts ethics normative free will ‘meta’ debate meta ethics...

... of praiseworthiness, using the idea of beneficial practices of praising. Finally, it claims that virtues are traits that both tend to cause right action and are praiseworthy. Virtues are not just good, but also admirable. equality praiseworthiness and blameworthiness reasons for action rightness well being...