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SUMMARY:Faculty Colloquia Series - Ravi Thakral Ph.D Presents "Minor Wrong
 s and the Logical Form of Moral Principles"
LOCATION:Nazir Ansari Building (AB) 309
DESCRIPTION:Can a pattern of behavior be wrong even when every individual 
 act within it is perfectly permissible?\n\nThis question poses a surprisi
 ngly deep problem about how morality works. We judge people based on isol
 ated actions. But we also judge people based on the patterns their action
 s form. The focus in moral theory tends to be on explaining the status of
  particular actions. If the individual actions are morally wrong\, then t
 here's no puzzle about why the resulting pattern might be morally objecti
 onable. But if each action is permissible\, then it seems hard to explain
  how the pattern itself could be morally prohibited.\n\nI argue that the 
 puzzle arises because of an overlooked ambiguity in the logical form of m
 oral principles. A prohibition may take individual actions as its objects
 \, or take a plurality of actions as its object non-distributively\; stan
 dard formulations run these two together. I show that this explains a ran
 ge of intuitive moral judgments and provides the theoretical basis for th
 e possibility of non-distributive moral prohibitions\, yielding a new way
  to think about the structure of moral requirements.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.
 app/events/0f67058f-2071-430a-879f-4d7c1d34d8f0
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