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Two Ways to Frustrate a Desire

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In both Tea Plant and Tea Spray, Beata prevents Andrew’s desire to drink the cup of tea from being satisfied, and in both cases, this is plausibly pro tanto wrong—that is, Beata’s action in each case possesses some feature or features that render it wrong, absent defeaters.2 Nevertheless, we suspect that many would judge there to be a moral difference between these cases—they would judge that the intervention in Tea Spray is in some respect more pro tanto wrong than the intervention in Tea Pl...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s10790-017-9586-9

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
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Author
Publisher:
Springer Verlag Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Value Inquiry Journal website
Publication date:
2017-02-20
Acceptance date:
2017-01-20
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EISSN:
1573-0492
ISSN:
0022-5363
Pubs id:
pubs:681607
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uuid:12d10936-ef05-4726-b2aa-7c306f874e71
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pubs:681607
Deposit date:
2017-02-23

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