Meaning of erogatory | Babel Free

Definitions

Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.

Examples

“Indeed, if the costs of going to war were lowered, what was supererogatory might become⟳ erogatory: lowering the costs to humanitarian war may take⟳ away one of the principal motivations (the harm⟳ to the intervening agent) for making it supererogatory.”

“For gay celebrities, is the duty to come⟳ out erogatory or supererogatory, and similarly, if others have⟳ a duty to out them, is this erogatory or supererogatory?”

“One might say⟳, plausibly, that the second is “merely erogatory”; it counts as the fulfillment of one's moral obligations, but not in a way that is particularly morally special.”

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