Moral Particularism
Moral Particularism

Author: Brad Hooker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9780198238843

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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 to all its rivals.

Challenging Moral Particularism
Challenging Moral Particularism

Author: Matjaž Potrc

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1135892512

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Particularism is a justly popular ‘cutting-edge’ topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support particularism (instead defending "generalist" theories that rest on particular abstract moral principles), but nearly all would take it to be a position that continues to offer serious lessons and challenges that cannot be safely ignored. Given the high standard of the contributions, and that this is a subject where lively debate continues to flourish, Challenging Moral Particularism will become required reading for professionals and advanced students working in the area.

Ethics Without Principles
Ethics Without Principles

Author: Jonathan Dancy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-06-10

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0199270023

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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 reasons, and he gives a detailed discussion, much needed, of the currently popular topic of 'contributory' reasons. Opposing positions of all sorts are summarized and criticized. Ethics Without Principles is the definitive statement of particularist ethical theory, and will be required reading for all those working on moral philosophy and ethical theory.

The Limits of Nationalism
The Limits of Nationalism

Author: Chaim Gans

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-02-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780521004671

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A radical new perspective on the demands made in the name of cultural nationalism.

Challenging Moral Particularism
Challenging Moral Particularism

Author: Matjaž Potrc

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1135892520

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Containing eleven essays covering a broad range of topics, this book addresses developments in particularist moral theory.

Ethical Particularism
Ethical Particularism

Author: Ulrik Kihlbom

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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This is a PhD dissertation. Ethical particularism claims that any non-moral feature that in one situation is a reason why something is, for example, morally wrong, may in another situation be morally irrelevant or have an opposite moral valence. Ethical particularism entails, in other words, the non-existence of true or sound moral principles. Actions, persons, and situations acquire their moral features contextually in a way that escapes codification in principled terms. Particularism comes in this way in conflict with a classical approach to moral philosophy

Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons
Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons

Author: Benedict Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0230292437

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Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons critically assesses the startling idea that our moral reasoning does not need to use moral principles. If we don't have principles, how do we work out what to do? This book examines 'moral particularism', a controversial idea at the forefront of contemporary moral theory.

Reasons as Defaults
Reasons as Defaults

Author: John F. Horty

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-04-25

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0199744076

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In this volume, John Horty brings to bear his work in logic to present a framework that allows for answers to key questions about reasons and reasoning, namely: What are reasons, and how do they support actions or conclusions?

The Quest for Good Governance
The Quest for Good Governance

Author: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 110711392X

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A passionate examination of why international anti-corruption fails to deliver results and how we should understand and build good governance.

Moral Theory
Moral Theory

Author: Mark Timmons

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0742564932

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Moral Theory: An Introduction explores some of the most historically important and currently debated moral theories about the nature of the right and good. Providing an introduction to moral theory that explains and critically examines the theories of such classical moral philosophers as Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Ross, this book acquaints students with the work of contemporary moral philosophers. All of the book's chapters have been revised in light of recent work in moral theory. The second edition includes a new chapter on ethical egoism, an extensively revised chapter on moral particularism, and expanded coverage of divine command theory, moral relativism, and consequentialism. Additionally, this edition discusses recent work by moral psychologists that is making an impact on moral theory.