Swinburne, Richard Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 1989 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824849-1







doi:10.1093/0198248490.003.0002

Richard Swinburne
Abstract: This chapter distinguishes various kinds of moral goodness. Actions may be objectively good and/or subjectively good; and they may be supererogatory or obligatory. Actions may be objectively or subjectively bad, and wrong or merely infrarvetatory. There is goodness either in good actions being done naturally (i.e. spontaneously), or in their being done contrary to inclination. There are three kinds of goodness of character: agents may be naturally inclined to do actions that are in fact good, they may have correct moral beliefs, and they may be naturally inclined to do actions that they believe to be good.

Keywords: Aristotle, character, goodness, Kant, moral belief, obligation, supererogatory action,

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Part I Responsibility
Part II Its Theological Consequences