Journal article
Ignorance, humility and vice
- Abstract:
- LaFollette argues that the greatest vice is not cruelty, immorality, or selfishness. Rather, it is a failure on our part to ‘engage in frequent, honest and rigorous selfreflection’. It is that failure which, on his view, explains the lion’s share of the wrongdoings we commit towards one another. In this short reply, I raise (in a sympathetic spirit) some questions about the task of identifying the greatest vice, and draw out some of the implications of LaFollette’s account of moral ignorance.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
- Journal:
- Journal of Practical Ethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 25-30
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-12-01
- ISSN:
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2051-655X
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