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Evil and moral detachment: further reflections on The Mirror Thesis

Archer,Alfred
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​A commonly accepted claim by philosophers investigating the nature of evil is that the evil person is, in some way, the mirror image of the moral saint. In this paper I will defend a new version of this thesis. I will argue that both the moral saint and the morally evil person are characterized by a lack of conflict between moral and non-moral concerns. However, while the saint achieves this unity through a reconciliation of the two, the evil person does so by eliminating moral concerns from her character.
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2016
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evil, moral saints
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Archer, A 2016, 'Evil and moral detachment : further reflections on The Mirror Thesis', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 201-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2015.1126340
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