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Supererogation is the technical term for the class of actions that go
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Supererogation is a legitimate class of moral action but only in a qualified sense, i.e. due to certain conditions that make the moral ˜ought™ inapplicable or not fully prescriptive.
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Supererogation lies at the intersection of the axiological and the deontic, the ˜good™ and the
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Supererogation is exactly what one does not personally have to do, even if it either ought to be done by someone or would lead to a state of affairs which “ought to exist.”
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Supererogation is valuable because we believe that beyond the impersonal and egalitarian social web created by the universal morality of duty, there is space left for particular relationships that are not governed by the principles of justice and rights.
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Supererogation is justified only in qualified, circumstantial terms relating to the limited effectiveness of its enforcement.
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Supererogation raises interesting problems both on the meta-ethical level of deontic logic and on the normative level of the justification of moral demands.
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But 'even amorous sonnets in the gallantest and sweetest civil vein,' wrote Gabriel Harvey in 'Pierces Supererogation' in 1593, 'are but dainties of a pleasurable wit.'
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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See Nash, Thomas (2) 'Pierces Supererogation,' by Gabriel Harvey, 101 _n_ 4 105
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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[725] And therefore, quhosoever boastis themselves of the merits of their awin works, or put their trust in the works of Supererogation, boast themselves in that quhilk is nocht, and pnt their trust in damnable
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