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The Suberogation Problem for Zhong’s Confucian Virtue Theory of Supererogation
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Early Release Articles
- 10.1353/pew.0.0156
- Article
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The supererogation problem is that a virtue theory of right action faces difficulty in distinguishing between obligation and supererogation. Lei Zhong (2016) proposes a Confucian virtue theory of supererogation, which solves the supererogation problem nicely. Nevertheless, I argue that Zhong’s theory runs into the suberogation problem.