Guidance, Obligations and Ability: A Close Look at the Action Guidance Argument for Ought-Implies-Can

Nick Hughes

Utilitas, 2018, vol. 30, issue 1, 73-85

Abstract: It is often argued that the requirement that moral obligations be ‘action guiding’ motivates the claim that one can be obligated to φ only if one can φ. I argue that even on its most plausible interpretation, this argument fails.

Date: 2018
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