Supererogation across normative domains

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The phenomenon of moral supererogation – action that goes beyond what moral duty requires – is familiar. In this paper, I argue that the concept of supererogation is applicable beyond the moral domain. After an introductory Section 1, I outline in Section 2 what I take to be the structure of moral supererogation, explaining how it comes to be an authentic normative category. In Section 3, I show that there are structurally similar phenomena in other normative domains – those of prudence, etiquette, and the epistemic – and give examples of acts of supererogation of each of these types.

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