Conflicting duties › Further reading
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- W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good, chapter II, "What Makes Right Acts Right?" (1930). The chapter develops the distinction between prima facie duty and duty proper, the inventory of duties, and the contrast between general knowledge and particular judgment.
- Read its discussion of promising alongside its discussion of beneficence. The comparison makes Ross's disagreement with reducing rightness to the production of good especially clear.
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