naa a22 4500 510789633 CHVBK 20180411083315.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9422-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9422-9 Archer Alfred School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK aut Supererogation and Intentions of the Agent [Elektronische Daten] [Alfred Archer] It has been claimed, by David Heyd, that in order for an act to count as supererogatory the agent performing the act must possess altruistic intentions (1982 p.115). This requirement, Heyd claims, allows us to make sense of the meritorious nature of acts of supererogation. In this paper I will investigate whether there is good reason to accept that this requirement is a necessary condition of supererogation. I will argue that such a reason can be found in cases where two people act in the same way but with only the person who acted with altruistic intent counting as having performed an act of supererogation. In such cases Heyd's intention requirement plays an important role in ruling out acts that intuitively are not supererogatory. Despite this, I will argue that we should reject Heyd's requirement and replace it with a moral intention requirement. I will then investigate how to formulate this requirement and respond to two objections that might be raised against it. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Supererogation nationallicence Normative Ethics nationallicence Motivation nationallicence Intention nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 447-462 0048-3893 41:2<447 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9422-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9422-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Archer Alfred School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 447-462 0048-3893 41:2<447 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer