Acts, Perfect Duties, and Imperfect Duties

Review of Metaphysics 20 (3):507 - 517 (1967)
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What I have just said strikes me as not only paradoxical but true. In what follows I shall try to show that it is not all that paradoxical and that it is true. In order to show this, and in order to discuss some important and neglected features of act and duty individuation, I shall contrast the concepts of perfect duty and imperfect duty.

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