Seyyed Mohsen Eslami and Alfred Archer have argued for what they call the cautionary account of supererogation. According to this account, an action is supererogatory iff it involves exercising caution in doing the right thing in cases where the agent's self-interest gets into conflict with the interests of others. They argue that further to be interesting in its own right, this account can solve some problems that bedevil other accounts. In this note, I argue that caution cannot explain supererogation. The main reason is that we can plausibly speak about required, forbidden, and supererogatory caution. Therefore, caution cannot be what makes some actions supererogatory. I also show that we can think about cases where we intuitively have supererogation without the presumed caution.

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谨慎和超额：对 Eslami 和 Archer 的回复

赛义德·莫森·埃斯拉米（Seyyed Mohsen Eslami）和阿尔弗雷德·阿切尔（Alfred Archer）为他们所说的超额度的警示性解释进行了论证。根据这个解释，如果一个行为涉及在代理人的自身利益与他人的利益发生冲突的情况下谨慎行事，那么它就是超然的。他们认为，这个账户本身更有趣，可以解决一些困扰其他账户的问题。在这篇笔记中，我认为谨慎不能解释 supererogation。主要原因是我们可以合理地谈论必需的、禁止的和超乎寻常的谨慎。因此，谨慎不能成为使某些行为具有优越性的原因。我还表明，我们可以考虑我们直觉上有 supererogation 而没有假定的谨慎的情况。