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OtherWorldly Redemption
Eleonore Stump
in Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering

Published in print: 2010 Published Online:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
September 2010
DOI: 10.1093/
ISBN: 9780199277421 eISBN: 9780191594298 acprof:oso/9780199277421.003.0008
Item type: chapter
This chapter considers the way in which human moral wrongdoing

fragments the psyche of the wrongdoer. It examines the theological
doctrine of original sin and argues against attempts to show that a
human tendency to moral wrongdoing, of the sort postulated by the
doctrine of original sin, is incompatible with the existence of a perfectly
good, omniscient, omnipotent God. It then presents the remedies for
the human proclivity to moral wrongdoing as Aquinas sees them. These
consist in the processes of justification and sanctification. The chapter
argues that each of these processes requires a certain kind of passivity
and surrender on the part of the person engaged in the process. Contrary
to Harry Frankfurt's position that passivity is inimical to the true self and
to human flourishing, it is argued that some significant goods for human
beings, including the love of friendship, are impossible without some
reciprocal passivity.
Willed Loneliness
Eleonore Stump
in Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering

September 2010
DOI: 10.1093/
Item type: chapter
This chapter argues that closeness, union, and love come in two modes:
ordinary and strenuous. To make this case, it examines the analogy of
two notions of freedom of the will, the ordinary and the strenuous (of
the sort associated with the work of Harry Frankfurt). In order to make
sense of this distinction among kinds of freedom, it is helpful first to
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make a distinction between two notions of the true self, a metaphysical

and a psychological sense. The psychological sense depends on the
metaphysical sense; in its turn, it undergirds and explains the strenuous
notion of freedom. It also helps to explain the strenuous senses of
closeness, union, and love; it also elucidates the way in which moral
wrongdoing fragments the self. On this basis, the chapter then considers
the nature of shame and the distinction between guilt and shame. It
shows that both guilt and shame can produce a kind of willed loneliness.
Transgressive Comedy and Partiality : Making Sense of our

Amusement at His Girl Friday
Ward E. Jones
in Ethics at the Cinema

January 2011
DOI: 10.1093/
Item type: chapter
One of the more common experiences of the film viewer is that of

finding something on the screen funny or humorous. Some of this
amusement will be at what I will call transgressive actions, that is,
at the kind of events that would, in many other, easily imaginable
instances, appropriately bring about very different kinds of responses.
This phenomenon is prima facie perplexing, since our default response
to wrongdoing does not (nor should it) include amusement. The present
paper explores one kind of transgressive comedy that which invites
viewers to laugh with a perpetrator of wrongdoing. My positive claim,
developed in Sections 4-6, will be that our favoritism towards certain
persons or characters plays a role in some examples of humor at
wrongdoings; in particular, I will suggest that it plays a central role in our
amusement at the events in the 1940 Howard Hawks film His Girl Friday.
Sin and Self-Deception in Pascals Moral Theology

William Wood
in Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall: The Secret Instinct
September 2013
DOI: 10.1093/
Item type: chapter
This chapter discusses Pascals account of how the Fall has affected
our capacity for moral reasoning and moral judgment. Not surprisingly,
he argues that the chief threat to the moral life is self-deception. His
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central claim is that, in a moral dilemma, an agent usually perceives a

sinful choice as more attractive than a moral choice precisely because
the sinful choice is rooted in self-serving imaginative fantasy. He then
convinces himself that the sinful choice is, in fact, morally licit.
The Boundaries of the Criminal Law
R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, S.E. Marshall, Massimo Renzo, and Victor Tadros
(eds)
September 2011
DOI: 10.1093/
Item type: book
The series Criminalization is a set of volumes arising from an

interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the
principles and goals that should guide decisions about what kinds
of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization
should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the six
volumes in this series aim to tackle the key questions at the heart of
issue: By reference to what principles and goals should legislations
decide what to criminalize? How should criminal wrongs be classified
and differentiated? And how should law enforcement officials apply the
law's specification of offences? This book is the first book in this series
examining the scope and boundaries of the criminal law. Investigations
into the scope of the criminal law have often focused on the harm
principle, the principle that conduct can be justifiably criminalized
only if it is harmful, or other master principles that might determine
the proper scope of the criminal law. These chapters aim to make
significant advances in the development of a broader range of ideas that
might inform criminalization decisions. A range of issues are discussed,
including the significance for criminalization of ideas of moral wrongdoing
and of using a person as a means, the distinction between criminal law
and other forms of legal regulation, the role of new technology in our
understanding of the evolving scope of the criminal law, and the role of
criminal justice officials in decision-making about criminalization. The
chapters draw on legal and philosophical sources, and also on history,
sociology, and social psychology in their investigations.
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A Pascalian Model of Sin as Self-Deception: Morally Culpable

Self-Persuasion
William Wood
in Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall: The Secret Instinct
September 2013
DOI: 10.1093/
Item type: chapter
Chapter 6 presents a Pascalian model of sin as self-deception,

understood as morally culpable self-persuasion. The sinner lies to
himself about his own moral responsibility. His self-deception begins
in the imagination, as he is spontaneously presented with an array
of different interpretations of his moral situation. He then accepts a
false interpretation of his own wrongdoing, and persuades himself that
it is true with rhetorical and behavioral techniques. He engages in a
persuasive program of internal rhetoric, and he acts as if his favored
interpretation is true. This project of self-persuasion causes him to
believe a favored, false interpretation of his own wrongdoing. The sinner
pursues a coherence of identity that is more important to him than the
goal of preserving logically consistent beliefs. The immoral self-deceiver
intentionally constructs a false self so that he can avoid confronting his
own immoral engagements.
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University Press Scholarship Online

You are looking at 1-6 of 6 items for: keywords : moral wrongdoing

in Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering

This chapter considers the way in which human moral wrongdoing

in Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering

make a distinction between two notions of the true self, a metaphysical

Transgressive Comedy and Partiality : Making Sense of our

in Ethics at the Cinema

One of the more common experiences of the film viewer is that of

Sin and Self-Deception in Pascals Moral Theology

central claim is that, in a moral dilemma, an agent usually perceives a

The Boundaries of the Criminal Law

The series Criminalization is a set of volumes arising from an

A Pascalian Model of Sin as Self-Deception: Morally Culpable

Chapter 6 presents a Pascalian model of sin as self-deception,

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