Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Bolzano

  • Bolzano on Obligation and Supererogation

    Here is a curious passage from Bernard Bolzano's Wissenschaftslehre, sec. 147 (HT: V.V.): . . . I take the concept of obligation in such a wide sense that it holds of every resolution which can be termed morally good, whether it is a definite duty or  or merely meritorious, so that we can say of…