Erogatory

Quick meaning: Erogatory is an adjective meaning (philosophy, ethics) Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.

Meaning

(philosophy, ethics) Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dutiful, ethical, adequate, obliged, obligatory, moral.

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