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Saints and Heroes: A Plea for the Supererogatory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Patricia M. McGoldrick
Patricia M. McGoldrick
Affiliation:
College of Charleston
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Philosophy , Volume 59 , Issue 230 , October 1984 , pp. 523 - 528
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1984

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References

1 Pybus, Elizabeth M., ‘Saints and Heroes’, Philosophy 57, No. 220 (1982), 193–199.Google Scholar

2 Urmson, J. O., ‘Saints and Heroes’, in Essays in Moral Philosophy, Melden, A. I. (ed.) (University of Washington Press, 1958).Google Scholar

3 The ceteris paribus qualification here is intended to cover those cases where unique features of the situation render the moral ideal inapplicable. Plato's example of returning a borrowed dagger to one who has since gone insane is a case in point.

4 Pybus, ‘Saints and Heroes’, 197.

5 Ibid. 195.

6 Ibid. 197.

7 Cf. Hill, T. E., ‘Servility and Self-Respect’, The Monist 57, (1973), 84–104.Google Scholar

8 Pybus, ‘Saints and Heroes’, 199.