Single Idea 6998

[catalogued under 20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions]

Full Idea

We have, it seems to me, currently no clear sense of the place and rationale of the distinction between doing and allowing in folk morality.

Gist of Idea

Folk morality does not clearly distinguish between doing and allowing

Source

Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.5)

Book Reference

Jackson,Frank: 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' [OUP 2000], p.133


A Reaction

Does this mean that philosophers should endeavour to appear on television in order to improve folk morality, so that Jackson, back at the ranch, can then infer the meanings of moral terms from the new improved version?