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The Act Itself$
The Act Itself

Jonathan Bennett

Print publication date: 1998

Print ISBN-13: 9780198237914

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/019823791X.001.0001

(p. 237 ) Index of Subjects

Source:
The Act Itself
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
absolutism 165–71, 197
abstaining from intervening 107–9
accordion effect 28, 191–2
action 29–30
active/passive 105–20
affections 153–8
‘allow’ 65–8
allowing, see making/allowing
altering conditions 121–3
analysis, philosophical 3–12
see also categorial
analyticity 8–9
association of ideas 60–1
atrocities 159–60, 164–93
basic moral significance 74–7
belief and wrongness 48–52, 76
bubble phenomenon 68–70, 136 n.
‘by’‐locution 27–9, 35–7
categorial distinctions 11–12, 105–6, 140, 145–6, 149, 167, 175, 177
causation, fact/event 40–5
‘cause’, meaning of 126–30, 134–7
character, moral 173–4, 176–8, 221–4
comparability of values 179–80
‘consequence’ defined 4
consequences:
noncausal 39, 41, 43, 54, 108, 127–8
consequentialism 43–5
course of nature 114–18
‘crisis’ defined 164
demands of morality 143–63
deontological morality 43–5, 189–93
determinism 51–4, 118
difficulty and cost 75, 82–4, 101
direct/mediated 5–6, 45, 116, 166, 183–6, 192–3
disastrous/wrong 50
double effect, principle of 196–200, 212
dual, making/allowing 81, 141–2, 145, 183
effort 125–6
entailment of moral judgements 16–19
events 30–3, 41, 205–7
expectable utility 144
express/assert 14
expressivism 13–14
feelings, see affections
generosity 58–9
God 64, 140, 167–8
‘good state of affairs’ 181–3
immediate/mediate 35–8, 40
immobility 96–100, 112–14, 137
inconceivability 213, 225
indirect killing 203–4, 212
infinite value 179
injunctivism 13
integrity 152, 187
intended/foreseen 202–18
intending 39–40, 75–6, 194–225
intentions as explanatory 201–3
intervention in the course of nature 107–9, 118–20
intrinsic facts 35–8, 43–5, 191–2, 197
intuitions, moral 18–19, 25–6, 77–9, 140, 149, 162
knowability and wrongness 49–52, 57–8
law, criminal 76–7, 159, 164, 202
levels of morality 22–6, 64, 153–8, 173–4
luck in morality 58–61
making/allowing 3–5, 62–193, 214
mass/count 29–30, 35
match phenomenon 70–3
meanings of words 7, 63–5, 192–3
means/by‐product 204–13
/ends 218–21
principle 200, 212–25
metric for possibility space 92–6, 100–4
motive 75–6, 165 n.
see also intending
necessity of moral judgements 14–15, 20 n. (p. 238 )
negative acts 85–8, 138
neutrality of making/allowing 103, 105, 139–42
nominals (perfect, imperfect) 31, 34
nonrealism about morality 12–26
noun‐infinite 42, 205
opportunistic agency 219–21
orders of morality 46–61, 194–6
organic unities 11, 74–9
pointing finger 160–1
policy 171–5
positive/negative facts 72, 86–96
positive/negative relevance 88–9, 109–14
pragmatics 66–7, 130–3, 202
praise 146–7
preventing 67–8, 139
probability 52–8
and causation 56–7
and wrongness 54–8
projects 151–3, 186–9
realism, see nonrealism
relational properties of behaviour 27–8, 38–40
‘relativism’ defined 165
see also absolutism
‘relevance’ defined 4
respect 177
rights 80–3
rules of thumb 23
science and morality 20
self‐interest, morality of 150–3, 158–61
simple concepts 3–4
simple propositions 129
stability 6
status, moral 178
supererogation 146–7, 151
supervenience 1–2, 20 n.
survival lottery 174–5
theory, high level 19–21
thick moral concepts 2
things/stuff 35
threats 123–5
tragedy/calamity 170–1
universalisability 12, 13–20
‘via’ 125–6
virtues 22, 140–1, 182–3