Honouring and Admiring the Immoral: An Ethical Guide - Paperback

by Alfred Archer (Author), Benjamin Matheson (Author)

Is it appropriate to honour and admire artists, intellectuals, athletes or politicians if those people have also acted immorally? The authors draw on the latest research from ethics, value theory, philosophy of emotion, social philosophy and social psychology to present reasons both in favor and against honouring and admiring the immoral.

Author Biography

Alfred Archer is an assistant professor of philosophy at Tilburg University and a member of the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science. His primary research interests are in moral philosophy and moral psychology, particularly supererogation, the nature and ethics of admiration, and the ethics of fame.

Benjamin Matheson is a Humboldt research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has research interests in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotions, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Canadian Journal of Philosophy.