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Moral Accountancy and Moral Worth
Author(s) -
Smilansky Saul
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9973.00044
Subject(s) - moral disengagement , law and economics , moral psychology , positive economics , moral theology , sociology , accounting , economics , environmental ethics , epistemology , business , philosophy , theology
People do good or bad things, and get or do not get good or bad credit for their actions, depending (in part) on knowledge of their actions. I attempt to unfold some of the interconnections between these matters, and between them and the achievement of moral worth. The main conclusion is that the heights of moral worth seem to appear in the oddest places.