Open AccessOn the Range or Scope of [Moral] Action
Author(s) -
Garrett Barden
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.9.2.3
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , action (physics) , realm , epistemology , range (aeronautics) , psychology , social psychology , sociology , political science , law , philosophy , computer science , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language , aerospace engineering
The range or scope of [moral] action is the range or scope of deliberate action. A deliberate action is chosen. Some choices are, for various reasons, considerably more important than others – most will agree that the decision whether or not to get married is more important than whether or not or where to go on holiday – but no choice is outside the moral realm, and no choice, as Aristotle already made clear, is made in the abstract. All actual choices are made in the prevailing circumstances as they are understood by the person choosing. There are no abstract and no non-moral choices.