Gauguin’s lucky escape: Moral luck and the morality system
Lang, G
(2018)
Gauguin’s lucky escape: Moral luck and the morality system.
In: Chappell, SG and van Ackeren, M, (eds.)
Ethics Beyond the Limits: New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy.
Routledge
, Abingdon, Oxon, UK
, pp. 129-147.
ISBN 978-1-138-48164-0
Abstract
Few things under the philosophical sun are entirely new. The problem of moral luck, in something like its modern form, was anticipated by Adam Smith (1759/1976, II.iii.2). ¹ It is beyond reasonable doubt, however, that the specific impetus behind the extensive contemporary discussion of moral luck was a symposium on moral luck by Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel, published in 1976 (Nagel 1976; Williams 1976). ² The phrase ‘moral luck’ is also owed to Williams.
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