Good Moral Act

A Good Moral Act is a morally-judgeable act that is deemed good moral choice (of good moral value) by some moral reasoning (under some moral philosophy).

• AKA: Right Moral Action.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Small Good Moral Act to being a Notable Good Moral Act to being a Significant Good Moral Act.
  • It can (often) be preceded by a Morally Good Intention.
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• Example(s):
  • "Person P kept their promise.", according to some duty-based ethics.
  • "Person P told the truth.", according to some duty-based ethics.
  • "Person P donated 10% of her annual income to a good cause last year.", according to some Effective Altruism.
  • "Person P protected their extended family."
  • "Person P donated one of their kidneys to a stranger.", according to some beauty-based ethics.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Bad Moral Act.
  • a Non-Morally Judgeable Act.
  • a Good Legal Act.
  • a Good Economic Act.
• See: Moral Judgement, Fair Act.

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References

2013

• (Coyne, 2013) ⇒ Christopher Coyne. (2013). “Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why humanitarian action fails." Stanford University Press. ISBN:0804772282.

1997

• (Norcross, 1997) ⇒ Alastair Norcross. (1997). “Good and Bad Actions." The Philosophical Review, 106(1).
  • QUOTE: It is usually assumed to be possible, and sometimes even desirable, for consequentialists to make judgments about both the rightness and the goodness of actions... 6) Bentham is usually understood to be talking about rightness.8 This would seem to be a nonmaximizing account of …

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