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- Title
Are Some Prima Facie Duties More Binding than Others?
- Authors
ROBINSON, MICHAEL
- Abstract
In The Right and the Good, W. D. Ross commits himself to the view that, in addition to being distinct and defeasible, some prima facie duties are more binding than others. David McNaughton has argued that there appears to be no way of making sense of this claim that is both coherent and consistent with Ross's overall picture. I offer an alternative way of understanding Ross's remarks about the comparative stringency of prima facie duties, which, in addition to being compatible with his view as presented in the text, provides us with a coherent, and indeed plausible, account of what it means for some duties to be more binding than others.
- Subjects
PRIMA facie evidence; RIGHT &; the Good, The (Book); ROSS, W. D.; DUTY; MCNAUGHTON, David
- Publication
Utilitas, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0953-8208
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0953820809990343