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Externalism and Self-governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

JOHN SKORUPSKI
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews

Abstract

What outcomes are good, and what there is reason for one to do, is not generally determined by what one thinks or even what one has reason to think. But is a similarly ‘externalist’ account of the distinctively moral concepts, the concepts of moral duty or obligation, of moral wrongness, blameworthiness and guilt, appropriate? I argue not; and on that basis I suggest that an externalist account is not appropriate for the concept of a virtue either.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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