Ross, David formerly Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy
Stratton-Lake, Philip Department of Philosophy, University of Reading
Print publication date: 2002 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925265-7







doi:10.1093/0199252653.003.0007

W. D. Ross
Abstract: This is the last of five chapters on good, and examines moral goodness. Ross explains the concept of morally good as either being a certain sort of character or being related in one of certain definite ways to a certain sort of character. The matter of what kinds of things are morally good is then addressed, and further advances made in defining moral goodness. These begin by considering Immanuel Kant's views on the desire to do duty, and go on to consider conscientious—or virtuous—actions, scales of moral goodness (or badness), types of good desire, and bad actions.

Keywords: bad actions, badness, character, conscientious actions, desire, duty, good desire, goodness, Immanuel Kant, moral badness, moral goodness, moral goodness of things, virtue, virtuous actions,

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