Moral particularism / edited by Brad Hooker and Margaret Olivia Little.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hooker, Brad, 1957-

Little, Margaret Olivia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Individuation (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

A timely and penetrating investigation, this book 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 idea that correct moral judgements can be only about particular cases. This view--moral particularism--forecasts a revolution in ordinary moral practice that has until now consisted largely of appeals to general moral principles. Moral particularism also opposes the primary aim of most contemporary normative moral theory that attempts to show that either one general principle, or a set of general principles, is superior to all its rivals.

Contents:

Moral particularism: wrong and bad / Brad Hooker

Particularizing particularism / Roger Crisp

The truth in particularism / Joseph Raz

Ethical particularism and patterns / Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith

Ethics as an inexact science: Aristotle's ambitions for moral theory / T.H. Irwin

The particularists's progress / Jonathan Dancy

Ethical particularism in context / David Bakhurst

Particularity and principle: the structure of moral knowledge / Jay Garfield

Against deriving particularity / Lawrence Blum

Why practice needs ethical theory: particularism, principle, and bad behaviour / Martha Nussbaum

Unprincipled ethics / David McNaughton and Piers Rawling

Moral generalities revisited / Margaret Olivia Little.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-311) and index.

ISBN:

0198238835

0198238843

OCLC:

44518035