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  1. What moral saints look like.Vanessa Carbonell - 2009 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39 (3):pp. 371-398.
    Susan Wolf famously claimed that the life of the moral saint is unattractive from the “point of view of individual perfection.” I argue, however, that the unattractive moral saints in Wolf’s account are self-defeating on two levels, are motivated in the wrong way, and are called into question by real-life counter-examples. By appealing to a real-life case study, I argue that the best life from the moral point of view is not necessarily unattractive from the individual (...)
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  2. Moral saints.Susan Wolf - 1982 - Journal of Philosophy 79 (8):419-439.
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  3. Moral Saints, Moral Monsters, and the Mirror Thesis.Peter Brian Barry - 2009 - American Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2):163 - 176.
    A number of philosophers have been impressed with the thought that moral saints and moral monsters—or, evil people, to put it less sensationally—“mirror” one another, in a sense to be explained. Call this the mirror thesis. The project of this paper is to cash out the metaphorical suggestion that moral saints and evil persons mirror one other and to articulate the most plausible literal version of the mirror thesis. To anticipate, the most plausible version of (...)
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    Moral Saints.Susan Wolf - 1982 - In Roger Crisp & Michael Slote (eds.), Virtue Ethics. Oxford University Press.
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  5. Moral saints.Susan Wolf - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. Oxford University Press.
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    Moral Saints, Hindu Sages, and the Good Life.Christopher G. Framarin - unknown
    Roy W. Perrett argues that the Hindu sage, like the western moral saint, seems precluded from pursuing non-moral ends for their own sakes. If he is precluded from pursuing non-moral ends for their own sakes, then he is precluded from pursuing non-moral virtues, interests, activities, relationships, and so on for their own sakes. A life devoid of every such pursuit seems deficient. Hence, the Hindu sage seems to forsake the good life. In response, I adapt a (...)
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    The Kantian Non-Moral Saint.Ali Sharaf - 2022 - Con-Textos Kantianos 15:39-50.
    In _Moral Saints_, Susan Wolf raises a question for morality in general: should we strive to be perfectly moral, even though being a moral saint does not entail having a perfectly good life? Wolf answers that moral saints represent an undesirable and unattractive human ideal because they lack the “ability to enjoy the enjoyable in life” (Wolf 424). Accordingly, Wolf objects to both utilitarianism and Kantianism, claiming that these ethical theories present moral sainthood as an (...)
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  8. Moral Saints and Moral Heroes.Louis P. Pojman - unknown
    In 1941 Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar from Warsaw was arrested for publishing anti-Nazi pamphlets and sentenced to Auschwitz. There he was beaten, kicked by shiny leather boots, and whipped by his prison guards. After one prisoner successfully escaped, the prescribed punishment was to select ten other prisoners who were to die by starvation. As ten prisoners were pulled out of line one by one, Fr. Kolbe broke out from the ranks, pleading with he Commandant to be allowed to (...)
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  9. Moral Repair and the Moral Saints Problem.Linda Radzik - 2012 - Religious Inquiries 2 (4):5-19.
    This article explores the forms of moral repair that the wrongdoer has to perform in an attempt to make amends for her past wrongdoing, with a focus on the issues of interpersonal moral repair; that is, what a wrongdoer can do to merit her victim‘s forgiveness and achieve reconciliation with her community. The article argues against the very general demands of atonement that amount to an obligation to stop being someone who commits wrongs—to become a moral saint—and (...)
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    The Motivation of the Moral Saint.Christopher G. Framarin - 2020 - Journal of Value Inquiry 54 (3):387-406.
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  11. In Praise of Moral Saints.Edward Lawry - 2002 - Southwest Philosophy Review 18 (1):1-11.
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  12. Moral Opposites - An examination of intuitions concerning the amoralist and the moral saint.J. Fischer - unknown
    In this thesis I want to take a look at the extreme ends of the moral spectrum. Specifically, I am going to examine the very extremes of the moral spectrum, namely the amoralist and the moral saint. I want to take a look at the justifications we have for the intuitions people commonly hold about these two opposites; the intuition being that both an amoralist and a moral saint are undesirable ideals. In examining both cases, I (...)
     
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    Can Businesses Be Too Good? Applying Susan Wolf's “Moral Saints” to Businesses.Earl Spurgin - 2011 - Business and Society Review 116 (3):355-373.
    ABSTRACTSusan Wolf famously argues that moral sainthood is not an ideal for which persons should aim because it requires one to cultivate moral virtues to the exclusion of significant, nonmoral interests, and skills. I find Wolf's argument compelling in her context of persons, and seek to demonstrate that it remains so when the context is expanded to businesses. I argue that just as moral perfection precludes individuals from challenging societal norms and traditions in ways that benefit us, (...)
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  14. Moral Monsters and Saints.Daniel M. Haybron - 2002 - The Monist 85 (2):260-284.
    This paper argues for the moral significance of the notion of an evil person or character. First, I argue that accounts of evil character ought to support a robust bad/evil distinction; yet existing theories cannot plausibly do so. Consequentialist and related theories also fail to account for some crucial properties of evil persons. Second, I sketch an intuitively plausible “affective-motivational” account of evil character. Third, I argue that the notion of evil character, thus conceived, denotes a significant moral (...)
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  15. Saints, Heroes and Moral Necessity.Alfred Archer - 2015 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 77:105-124.
    Many people who perform paradigmatic examples of acts of supererogation claim that they could not have done otherwise. In this paper I will argue that these self-reports from moral exemplars present a challenge to the traditional view of supererogation as involving agential sacrifice. I will argue that the claims made by moral exemplars are plausibly understood as what Bernard Williams calls a ‘practical necessity’. I will then argue that this makes it implausible to view these acts as involving (...)
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    Saint Cicero and The Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism. By Robert Aleksander Maryks.Jeffrey Witt - 2010 - Heythrop Journal 51 (2):337-338.
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    Saintly sacrifice: The traditional transmission of moral elevation.Craig T. Palmer, Ryan O. Begley & Kathryn Coe - 2013 - Zygon 48 (1):107-127.
    This paper combines the social psychology concept of moral elevation with the evolutionary concept of traditions as descendant-leaving strategies to produce a new explanation of the role of saints in Christianity. Moral elevation refers to the ability of prosocial acts to inspire people to engage in their own acts of charity and kindness. When morally elevating stories and visual depictions become traditional by being passed from one generation to the next, they can produce prosocial behavior advantageous to (...)
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  18. Rumination and Wronging: The Role of Attention in Epistemic Morality.Catharine Saint-Croix - 2022 - Episteme 19 (4):491-514.
    The idea that our epistemic practices can be wrongful has been the core observation driving the growing literature on epistemic injustice, doxastic wronging, and moral encroachment. But, one element of our epistemic practice has been starkly absent from this discussion of epistemic morality: attention. The goal of this article is to show that attention is a worthwhile focus for epistemology, especially for the field of epistemic morality. After presenting a new dilemma for proponents of doxastic wronging, I show how (...)
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  19. Moral Theology of the Confessions of Saint Augustine.John F. Harvey - 2009 - Wipf and Stock Publishers.
    The purpose of this thesis is to explain the moral content of the Confessions of St. Augustine. Accordingly, other works of the Saint, as well as commentators on the Confessions will be used solely to clarify the main moral tenets of this work. Since moral principles, moreover, are found not merely in the expressed ideas of St. Augustine, but are also embodied in his actions, moral principles will be gleaned and illustrated from both sources. When, moreover, (...)
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    Moral and epistemic saints.Mark Bernstein - 1986 - Metaphilosophy 17 (2-3):102-108.
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    Morality, moral philosophy and metaphysics in Saint Thomas Aquinas.A. M. Gonzalez - 2000 - Pensamiento 56 (216):439-467.
    Hablar de ciencia moral es equívoco, pues depende del concepto de ciencia que manejemos, clásico, moderno o contemporáneo. Por otra parte, aun si aceptamos la posibilidad de una ciencia moral, queda pendiente la cuestión de su estatuto epistemológico: si es una ciencia práctica, si es una ciencia especulativa, y, en todo caso, qué relación guarda con la metafísica. En este artículo se examinan estos tres temas en el pensamiento de Santo Tomás de Aquino, teniendo presentes las objeciones que (...)
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    Moral amplification and the emotions that attach us to saints and demons.Jonathan Haidt & Sara Algoe - 2004 - In Jeff Greenberg, Sander L. Koole & Tom Pyszczynski (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology. Guilford Press. pp. 322--335.
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    The moral economy of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Agent sovereignty, customary law and market convention.John R. Owen - 2007 - The European Legacy 12 (1):39-54.
    The ethical authority carried in the conventions of fairness and human well-being has been widely adopted under the idea of “moral economy,” forming an eclectic and interdisciplinary debate. Significant, though external to this debate, is a corpus of medieval thought which exhibits a fundamental interest in legitimate market protocols, and the political rights and obligations of agents in relation to the common good of the community. This article asserts the imperative status of a customary basis for understanding not just (...)
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    Moral Deviants and Amoral Saints: A Dilemma for Moral Externalism.James Lenman - 2003 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (2):223-240.
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    Christian morality: containing thirteen soul-benefiting discourses, contrived for the improvement of the poor morals of Christians; and additionally, the most basic commandments of the Old and New Testaments.Saint Nicodemus & Chrysostomos - 2011 - Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
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    Moral Theology with the Saints.James Keating & David M. Mccarthy - 2003 - Modern Theology 19 (2):203-218.
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    La morale évangélique dans un monde sécularisé. Réflexion à partir de l'Écriture sainte.Pierre Grelot - 1983 - Revue Théologique de Louvain 14 (1):5-52.
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    Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality. Moral Traditions Series.David Haddorff - 2006 - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 26 (1):186-188.
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  29. Vertus morales infuses et vertus morales acquises selon saint Thomas d'Aquin.Gabriel Bullet - 1958 - Fribourg (Suisse): Éditions universitaires.
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    Review of Edith Wyschogrod: Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy.[REVIEW]Edith Wyschogrod - 1992 - Ethics 103 (1):181-184.
    "In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism.... [A] provocative and timely study."—Michael Gareffa, _Theological Studies_ "A 'must' for readers interested in the borderlands between philosophy, hagiography, and ethics."—Mark I. Wallace, _Religious Studies Review_.
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  31. The moral basis of social order according to Saint Thomas.George V. Dougherty - 1941 - Washington, D.C.,: The Catholic university of America press.
  32. La morale de saint Augustin.Bernard Roland-Gosselin - 1925 - Paris,: M. Rivière.
     
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    The secular saints: and why morals are not just subjective.Hunter Lewis - 2018 - Edinburg, VA: Axios Press.
    Are morals subjective? -- Ancient moral thinkers -- Socrates (469-399 bce) -- Aristotle (384-322 bce) -- Epicurus (342-270 bce) -- Epictetus (55-135 ce) -- Modern moral thinkers -- Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) -- David Hume (1711-1776) -- Adam Smith (1723-1790) -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832).
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  34. Saints, heroes, sages, and villains.Julia Markovits - 2012 - Philosophical Studies 158 (2):289-311.
    This essay explores the question of how to be good. My starting point is a thesis about moral worth that I’ve defended in the past: roughly, that an action is morally worthy if and only it is performed for the reasons why it is right. While I think that account gets at one important sense of moral goodness, I argue here that it fails to capture several ways of being worthy of admiration on moral grounds. Moral (...)
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    The Secular Saints: And Why Morals Are Not Just Subjective, by Hunter Lewis.Alex M. Richardson - 2019 - Teaching Philosophy 42 (1):81-83.
  36. La Philosophie Morale de Saint Thomas devant la Pensée Contemporaine. [REVIEW]O. P. P. McCarrol - 1956 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 6:156-158.
    As the title of this book is open to various interpretations the author is very anxious that the exact nature of his undertaking should be clearly understood from the outset. His aim is neither a wholehearted defence of the Thomist moral system against contemporary criticism, nor an attempt to discredit it by modern philosophical developments, but an adaptation of it to the contemporary situation which is a sort of ‘media via’ between those extremes, where adverse criticism must alternate with (...)
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  37. L'activité morale d'après saint Thomas d'Aquin.A. Sertillanges - 1928 - Revue Thomiste 33 (53):497.
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  38. La philosophie morale de saint Thomas d'Aquin.Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges - 1942 - Paris,: Aubier, Éditions Montaigne.
  39. La Sanction morale dans la Philosophie de saint Thomas.A. D. Sertillanges - 1912 - Revue des Sciences Philosophiques Et Théologiques 6:213-235.
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    Book Review:Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy. Edith Wyschogrod. [REVIEW]Larry May - 1992 - Ethics 103 (1):181-.
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    The Greatness of Humility. Saint Augustine on Moral Excellence.Kolawole Chabi - 2018 - Augustinianum 58 (1):290-294.
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    Katja Ritari, Saints and Sinners in Early Christian Ireland: Moral Theology in the Lives of Saints Brigit and Columba. (Studia Traditionis Theologiae, 3.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. Paper. Pp. xiv, 211; tables. €55. ISBN: 978-2503533155. [REVIEW]Catherine McKenna - 2012 - Speculum 87 (1):272-273.
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    La Philosophie Morale de Saint Thomas devant la Pensée Contemporaine.P. McCarrol - 1956 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 6:156-159.
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    Le juste milieu, le trop et le pas assez : Recherches sur le sens moral en art contemporain.Gaston Saint-Pierre - 1993 - Horizons Philosophiques 4 (1):109-116.
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  45. The fate of the moral manual since saint alphonsus.Raphael Gallagher - 2009 - In Enda McDonagh & Vincent MacNamara (eds.), An Irish Reader in Moral Theology: The Legacy of the Last Fifty Years. Columba Press.
     
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  46. La philosophie morale de saint Thomas devant la pensée contemporaine.Jacques Leclercq - 1955 - Louvain,: Publications universitaires de Louvain.
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    Le désir du bien: refonder l'action morale et politique en repensant la finalité.Renaud de Sainte-Marie - 2021 - Paris: Pierre Téqui éditeur.
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  48. Droit Et Moral Dans Saint Augustin.C. Boyer - 1966 - Revista Agustiniana 7:169-185.
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  49. La finalité morale chez les théologiens de saint Augustin à Duns Scot..Jean Rohmer - 1938 - Paris,: J. Vrin.
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    Conscience: writings from "Moral Theology" by Saint Alphonsus.Alfonso Maria de' Liguori - 2019 - Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications. Edited by Raphael Gallagher.
    a doubtful law does not bind -- Second corollary : uncertain law cannot impose certain obligation -- Commentary on the Treatise on conscience.
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