Theory of intentionality

The theory of intentionality, as originally posited by Peter Abelard, holds that one's intention in committing an act is what can be ethically judged. He illustrates the theory in Abelard's Ethics through a story describing a man who, while camping, enters a tent and sleeps with a woman, believing that woman is his wife. According to Abelard, the man has not committed a sin. If, however, he were to enter his wife's tent thinking it was the other woman's tent and sleep with his wife thinking he was committing adultery, the man has sinned.

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