caa a22 4500 386384339 CHVBK 20180307112054.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S026505250000100X doi S026505250000100X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S026505250000100X Hampton Jean Philosophy, University of California, Davis The Nature of Immorality [Elektronische Daten] [Jean Hampton] This article is concerned with the nature of individual moral failure. This has not been a standard issue for exploration in moral philosophy, where questions surrounding moral success have been more popular: in particular, the questions "What is it to do the moral thing (i.e., how do I identify moral success)?” and "Why am I supposed to do the moral thing (i.e., what is morality's authority)?” I want to change the subject and pursue answers to three importantly related questions about people's failure to be moral. First, I want to explore an issue in moral psychology: why do people behave immorally? I suspect this question has been largely ignored by philosophers because they have thought it a question for psychologists, and one that, at any rate, has an easy surface answer. Isn't it our immorality simply the result of our excessive self-interest? Yet we shall see in what follows that this answer is not nearly good enough, and that philosophers have a lot to contribute in determining what would count as a satisfactory answer. We shall also see that different meta-ethical theories purporting to explain the authority of moral action implicitly assume different and often mutually inconsistent accounts of why (and when) we fail to be moral, and our analysis will show that none of these accounts of moral failure is unproblematic. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1989 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 22-44 0265-0525 7:1<22 1989 7 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S026505250000100X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S026505250000100X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hampton Jean Philosophy, University of California, Davis NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 22-44 0265-0525 7:1<22 1989 7 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge