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      Book review: Motive and rightness

      van Zyl, Liezl
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      van Zyl, L. (2012). Book review: Motive and rightness. Ethics, 122(3), 627-632.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7628
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      This article reviews the book: “Motive and rightness “ , by Steven Sverdlik.

      This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the question of whether the motive of an action ever affects its deontic status, and it will also be of interest to normative ethicists in general. Many prominent moral philosophers, including J. S. Mill, H. A. Prichard, and W. D. Ross, hold that motives never have deontic relevance, but Steven Sverdlik disagrees. His aim in this book is to establish the truth of the following thesis and to understand why it is true: Motives Matter (MM): there is an action X such that if X were performed from one motive it would fall into one deontic category and if X were performed from another motive it would fall into a second deontic category in virtue of this difference in motives.
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      2012
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      Journal Article
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      University of Chicago Press
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      This article is published in the journal Ethics. © 2012 University of Chicago Press.
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