Some moral benefits of ignorance

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When moral philosophers study ignorance, their efforts are almost exclusively confined to its exculpatory and blameworthy aspects. Unfortunately, though, this trend overlooks that certain kinds of propositional namely the personal costs benefits altruistic actions, can indirectly incentivize those actions. Humans require cooperation from others survive, be facilitated by a good reputation. One avenue reputation is helping others, sticking principles, so forth, without calculating doing so, e.g., saving someone burning building how personally costly or beneficial it would be. These actions indirect (partly) resulting kind ignorance.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Psychology

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1465-394X', '0951-5089']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2042230