Moral Particularism

Name: Moral Particularism
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ISBN: 9780198238836

ISBN-10: 0198238835

ISBN-13: 9780198238836

Edition: 2000

Authors: Brad Hooker, Margaret Olivia Little

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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…

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List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




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