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  1. See Roslyn Weiss, “The Moral and Social Dimensions of Gratitude,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 23 (1985): 491–501; see also A.D.M. Walker, “Obligation and the Argument from Gratitude,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 17 (1988): 191–211; Terence McConnell, Gratitude (Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University Press, 1993); see also Dudley Knowles, “Gratitude and Good Government,” Res Publica, 8 (2002): 1–20.

  2. See Fred R. Berger, “Gratitude”, Ethics 85 (1975): 298–309; see also Claudia Card, “Gratitude and Obligation,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 25 (1988): 115–127; see also Patrick Fitzgerald, “Gratitude and Justice,” Ethics, 109 (1998): 119–143; Christopher H. Wellman, “Gratitude as a Virtue,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 80 (1999): 284–300.

  3. Card, op. cit., p. 117.

  4. Julia Driver, “The Suberogatory,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70 (1992): 286–295, cited in Wellman, op. cit.

  5. See Driver, op. cit.; see also Fitzgerald, op. cit.; see also Walker op. cit.

  6. See Sean McAleer, “Propositional Gratitude,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 49 (2012): 55–66.

  7. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969), Book III, part 1, section 1; Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics (London: Harper and Row, 1963), p. 218.

  8. Wellman, op. cit., p. 289.

  9. See David Carr, “Virtue, Mixed Emotions and Moral Ambivalence”, Philosophy, 84 (2009): 31–46.

  10. See Marcus Tullius Cicero, “Pro Plancio,” in Pro Archia. Post Reditum in Senatu, Post Reditum ad Quirites. De Domo Sua, De Haruspicum Responsis and Pro Plancio, translated by N. H. Watts (London: The Loeb Classical Library, volume 158, 1923).

  11. See Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, translated by W.D. Ross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925), book 4, part 3.

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Carr, D. Varieties of Gratitude. J Value Inquiry 47, 17–28 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-013-9364-2

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