Principled ethics : generalism as a regulative ideal

Principled ethics : generalism as a regulative ideal / Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge.

Moral philosophy has long been dominated by the aim of understanding morality and the virtues in terms of principles. The assumption that this is the best approach has been attacked by particularists. The authors meet the particularist challenge head on and defend 'generalism as a regulative id...

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Main Author: McKeever, Sean D.
Other Authors: Ridge, Michael (Michael R.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Principle (Philosophy)
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Ethik
Grondslagen.
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Table of Contents:
  • Many moral particularisms
  • Holisms about reasons
  • Default reasons
  • Moral vision
  • Constitutive generalism
  • From moral knowledge to default principles
  • Beyond default principles: trimming the hedges
  • Generalism as a regulative ideal
  • Principled guidance.

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