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GLOSSARY OF PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS
global.oup.comIt is discussed by Thomas Nagel in “War and Massacre.” accidental and essential A property is essential for an object if the object must have the property to exist and be the kind of thing that it is. A property is accidental if the object has the property, but doesn’t have to have it to exist or be the kind of thing that it is.
Journal of Philosophy, Inc.
philosophy.as.uky.eduJournal of Philosophy, Inc. The Absurd Author(s): Thomas Nagel Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 68, No. 20, Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the
Moral Luck by Thomas Nagel (1979)
rintintin.colorado.eduLet me give a few examples, beginning with the type of case Kant has in mind. Whether we succeed or fail in what we try to do nearly always depends to some extent on factors beyond our control. This is true of murder, altruism, revolution, the sacrifice of certain interests for the sake of others—almost any morally important act.