Quasi-supererogation

✍ Scribed by Gregory Mellema

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 519 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8116
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00354163

✦ Synopsis

According to the tri-partite classification of human actions found in classical systems of deontic logic, all human actions can be identified as either obligatory, permissible (but not obligatory), or forbidden. It has frequently been pointed out that the category of the permissible itself admits of subdivision, and hence the tfi-partite scheme can be expanded. It is commonly acknowledged, for example, that so-called acts of supererogation constitute a fourth class of human actions. Although one finds some disagreement concerning the precise definition of the concept, there appears to be reasonable agreement that it is