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Time and Morality
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Time is morally relevant. This chapter considers three temporal features that could be assigned moral significance when one assesses actions, activities, character-traits, and events: life periods, temporal order, and tense. It seems plausible to assign significance to life periods when one assesses character traits - innocence is a virtue for children but not for adults, for example. It is also clear that the temporal order between events can have moral significance when one assesses the ove...
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- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons
- Host title:
- A Companion to the Philosophy of Time
- Pages:
- 549-562
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-29
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- ISBN:
- 9780470658819
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- 2013
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