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Deliberating from One's Virtues
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AbstractBernard Williams says that ‘the characteristic and basic expression of a moral disposition in deliberation is not a premise which refers to that disposition’. If this means that we can never properly self-ascribe virtues and deliberate from this, then Williams is wrong. To deny this possibility is to be committed to either of two positions, neither of which is all that attractive (and certainly not attractive to Williams). The first position demands that virtue cannot know itself; while the second rests on the pessimistic view that morality itself can demand of us our moral identity.
Title: Deliberating from One's Virtues
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AbstractBernard Williams says that ‘the characteristic and basic expression of a moral disposition in deliberation is not a premise which refers to that disposition’.
If this means that we can never properly self-ascribe virtues and deliberate from this, then Williams is wrong.
To deny this possibility is to be committed to either of two positions, neither of which is all that attractive (and certainly not attractive to Williams).
The first position demands that virtue cannot know itself; while the second rests on the pessimistic view that morality itself can demand of us our moral identity.
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