Rövid leírás:
Twelve new essays by a distinguished international team of contributors, including some of the leading moral philosophers of the day, debate the plausibility of moral particularism. This will be the starting-point for all future discussion of the topic, and compelling reading for all who work in moral philosophy.
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Hosszú leírás:
Moral Particularism is a timely and penetrating investigation of a theoretical approach that seeks to transform moral philosophy. In the face of continuing disagreement about which general moral principles are correct, there has been a resurgence of interest in the view that correct moral judgements can be only about particular cases. This view, moral particularism, presages a revolution in ordinary moral practice, which has hitherto consisted largely of appeals to general
moral principles. Moral particularism also opposes the main aim of most contemporary normative moral theory, which consists in attempts to show that either one general principle or a set of general principles is superior to all its rivals.
The volume is indispensable to anyone working on the topic and useful for upper-level and graduate courses.It does represent the current state of the art.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Moral Particularism: Wrong and Bad
Particularising Particularism
The Truth in Particularism
Ethical Particularism and Patterns
Ethics as an Inexact Science: Aristotle’s Ambition for Moral Theory
The Particularist’s Progress
Ethical Particularism in Context
Particularity and Principle: The Structure of Moral Knowledge
Against Deriving Particularity
Why Practice Needs Ethical Theory: Particularism, Principle, and Bad Behaviour
Unprincipled Ethics
Moral Generalities Revisited
Bibliography
Index
