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Moral Harm and Moral Responsibility: A Defence of Ascriptivism

Pietro Denaro

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Settore IUS/20 - Filosofia Del DirittoMoral Harm Moral Responsibility Ascriptivism Moral Philosophy

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This paper investigates the relations between the concepts of moral harm and moral responsibility, arguing for a circularity between the two. On this basis the conceptual soundness of descriptivism, on which consequentialist and non-consequentialist arguments are often grounded, is questioned. In the last section a certain version of ascriptivism is defended: the circularity is relevant in order to understand how a restricted version of ascriptivism may in fact be well founded.

10.1111/j.1467-9337.2012.00508.xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10447/64298