INVESTIGADORES
RIVERA LOPEZ Eduardo Enrique
artículos
Título:
Can there be Full Excuses for Morally Wrong Actions?
Autor/es:
EDUARDO RIVERA LÓPEZ
Revista:
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Editorial:
Brown University
Referencias:
Año: 2006 vol. 73 p. 124 - 142
ISSN:
0031-8205
Resumen:
Most people (and philosophers) distinguish between performing a morally wrong action and being blameworthy for having performed that action, and believe that an individual can be fully excused for having performed a wrong action. My purpose is to reject this claim. More precisely, I defend what I call the Dependence Claim: As doing X is wrong only if A is blameworthy for having done X. I consider three cases in which, according to the traditional view, a wrong action could be excused: duress, mental illness, and mistake. I try to show that the reasons for excusing in either case are not relevantly distinguishable from the reasons for claiming that the prima facie wrong action is not wrong all things considered.
