W. D. Ross: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from W. D. Ross, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

You credit your successes to skill and your failures to bad luck
People consistently attribute their wins to their own ability and effort, but their losses to external circumstances beyond their control — a bad ref, an unfair test, the weather. …
— Edward E. Jones & Keith E. Davis; later Miller & Ross, Egotism in Attribution
W. D. Ross: morality is a handful of duties, not one master rule
Ross rejected both Kantian single-rule ethics and simple utilitarian calculation, arguing we have several genuine prima facie duties — fidelity, justice, beneficence, non-maleficen…
— W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good

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