Moral Principles

AvMaike Albertzart,Thom Brooks

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

The history of moral philosophy has been dominated by attempts to find and defend the correct moral principle or set of principles. However, over the last two decades the assumption that morality can and should be understood in terms of principles has come under attack from several quarters. The most radical attack has come from so-called moral particularists according to whom principles are at best useless and at worst a hindrance to successful moral reasoning and action.Why should – and how can – morality be based on principles? These are the leading questions of this book. Moral Principles offers a historically informed, in-depth examination of the current particularist/generalist debate and presents a novel account of the place of principles in our moral thought and action.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-23
Mått:138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:442 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Ethics
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472574206

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Maike Albertzart is Lecturer at the Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

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Maike Albertzart’s book can be read as an introduction to the ongoing dispute about what roles moral principles can and ought to play, but it also contains a substantial original contribution to this debate ... [Moral Principles] certainly opens up a space for new interesting ways to think about the perennial question of how to do normative moral philosophy.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Moral Particularism1.1 From scepticism about moral principles to particularism 1.2 The current particularism/generalism debate 1.3 The particularist challenge 2. Three Recent Attempts to Defend Moral Principles 2.1 Dancy’s generalist critics 2.2 Moral principles and practical reasoning 3. The Nature and Roles of Moral Principles 3.1 Indeterminacy 3.2 Defeasibility 3.3 Moral principles and the activity of moral judgement 3.4 Moral principles and the capacity of moral judgement Conclusion BibliographyIndex