| They have met with tremendous success and virtually no opposition in mainline Protestantism because of the praiseworthiness of their aims. |
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| The praiseworthiness of an action ought not be contingent upon factors beyond an agent's control but instead depends solely upon the agent himself. |
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| Now it is both necessary and sufficient for justice, and thus for praiseworthiness, that an agent wills what is right, knowing it to be right, because it is right. |
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| Having said this, however, it must be reiterated that these claims for ancient accounting are not to be taken as unadulterated claims of praiseworthiness. |
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| There is room, on her view, to hold that praiseworthiness is compatible with determinism though blameworthiness is not. |
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| However, praiseworthiness is associated with the evaluation of the agent rather than the act, while supererogation refers primarily to the act. |
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| Yet another strategy is to divorce completely the moral appraisals of acts from the blameworthiness or praiseworthiness of the agents who undertake them, even when those agents are fully cognizant of the moral appraisals. |
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