Title

Effort and Moral Worth

Authors

Kelly Sorensen, Ursinus CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2010

Abstract

One of the factors that contributes to an agent’s praiseworthiness and blameworthiness — his or her moral worth — is effort. On the one hand, agents who act effortlessly seem to have high moral worth. On the other hand, agents who act effortfully seem to have high moral worth as well. I explore and explain this pair of intuitions and the contour of our views about associated cases.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice in February, 2010.

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-009-9159-5

Recommended Citation

Kelly Sorensen (2010). Effort and Moral Worth. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp 89-109.