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It has been said that a good man is necessarily rewarded, and that an evil man is necessarily punished. What does such a claim amount to? There is no one answer to this question. In this chapter, I shall simply explore what is involved in some possible answers to the question.
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In Peter Winch, Ethics and Action (London: Routledge, 1972).
Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart, trans. Douglas Steere (New York: Harper and Row, 1956). See § 6.
For an example of exceptional self-sacrifice which has destructive results, see Edith Wharton’s short story, Bunner Sisters in Madame de Treymes (London: Virago, 1984).
Ludwig Wittgenstein, ‘Lecture on Ethics’, Philosophical Review, Jan. 1965, p. 8.
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Phillips, D.Z. (1992). Necessary Rewards, Necessary Punishments and Character. In: Interventions in Ethics. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11539-6_19
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