Moral incompetence
In T. D. J. Chappell (ed.), Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics. Oxford University Press (2006)
| Abstract | Moral high-performers have characteristic faults. I describe difficulties in handling moral problems that arise not out of faulty intentions or defective values but because the agents underestimate the complexity of the situation. | |||||||||
| Keywords | virtue moral competence moral skill | |||||||||
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