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(philosophy, ethics) Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations..
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.
Use erogatory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Erogatory means (philosophy, ethics) Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations..
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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.
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