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A Plea for the Supererogatory: A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Elizabeth M. Pybus
Elizabeth M. Pybus
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University of Glasgow
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Philosophy , Volume 61 , Issue 238 , October 1986 , pp. 526 - 531
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1986

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References

1 McGoldrick, Patricia M., ‘Saints and Heroes: A Plea for the Supereroga-tory’,Philosophy 59, No. 230 (October 1984), 523–528.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Ibid., 527.

3 Pybus, Elizabeth M., ‘Saints and Heroes’, Philosophy 57, No. 220 (1982), 193–199, 195.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 McGoldrick, ‘Saints and Heroes …’, 524.

5 Pybus, Elizabeth M., ‘False Dichotomies: Right and Good’, Philosophy 58 (1983), 19–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 McGoldrick, 525.

7 I do not intend to imply a sharp distinction between virtues as, say, techniques, and the ends at which virtuous moral agents aim. For instance, to help others I may need to be benevolent, but I cannot be benevolent unless the good of others is at least sometimes my aim.

8 McGoldrick, 526.

9 Ibid., 527.

10 Ibid., 527.