Huckleberry FInn Revisited: Inverse Akrasia and Moral Ignorance"

In Michael Mckenna Randolph Clarcke & Smith Angela M. (eds.), The Nature of Moral Responsibility. Oxford University Press. pp. 141-156 (2015)
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This paper argue that moral ignorance does not excuse. Nobody is off the hook for doing something bad simply because she did it believing ii to be right. The paper uses the Arpaly view that cases of Akrasia can be praiseworthy as one premise in the argument.

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