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What does supererogation mean?

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Noun
  1. An act of doing more than is required.
  2. (philosophy) An action that is neither morally forbidden nor required, but has moral value.
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The idea of it has never occurred to us, simply because of its supererogation.
But the office of running footman in the days of macadamization, is a work of supererogation.
Nor does he require of us good works to atone for our sins or works of supererogation to atone for the sins of others.
This change of heart for the philosopher most associated with the modern revival of the debate on supererogation is striking.
There is no knockout argument for any of the three views of supererogation.
The analysis of concrete cases or examples is methodologically important in the philosophical discussion of supererogation.

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