Acting for Values - Is the Importance in Effort or Achievement?
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I read in several places (if I remember correctly, Leibowitz refers to this a lot) that meeting a certain value is measured by effort and not by the achievement of meeting the goal. On the one hand, this sounds logical to me, but on the other hand, it doesn’t sound reasonable to me. For example, when a person is hesitating whether to uphold one of two values (for example, helping their grandmother, or contributing to the community), because their time/resources are limited, it is likely that it is more appropriate to choose the value that they have a better chance of succeeding at (of course, there are other considerations, but the hesitation is when the other considerations are equal on both sides).
I would love to hear your opinion on the matter.
It is the striving for moral achievement that defines the morally right action. But the evaluation of the person who performs a moral action is according to the effort and intention. See the last column (128) where I discussed the importance of these two components in moral evaluation.
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