Ethics Without Principles

Name: Ethics Without Principles
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ISBN: 9780199297689

ISBN-10: 0199297681

ISBN-13: 9780199297689

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jonathan Dancy

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Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. The possibility of moral thought and judgement does not in any way depend on an adequate supply of principles. Dancy grounds this claim on a form of reasons-holism, holding that what is a reason in one case need not be any reason in another, and maintaining that moral reasons are no different in this respect from others. He puts forward a distinctive form of value-holism to go with the holism of…

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




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