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Card, op. cit., p. 117.
Julia Driver, “The Suberogatory,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70 (1992): 286–295, cited in Wellman, op. cit.
See Driver, op. cit.; see also Fitzgerald, op. cit.; see also Walker op. cit.
See Sean McAleer, “Propositional Gratitude,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 49 (2012): 55–66.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969), Book III, part 1, section 1; Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics (London: Harper and Row, 1963), p. 218.
Wellman, op. cit., p. 289.
See David Carr, “Virtue, Mixed Emotions and Moral Ambivalence”, Philosophy, 84 (2009): 31–46.
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See Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, translated by W.D. Ross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925), book 4, part 3.
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Carr, D. Varieties of Gratitude. J Value Inquiry 47, 17–28 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-013-9364-2
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