Published: | 23-10-2014 |
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Format: | Paperback |
Edition: | 1st |
Extent: | 264 |
ISBN: | 9781472574190 |
Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Series: | Bloomsbury Ethics |
Dimensions: | 216 x 138 mm |
RRP: | £21.99 |
Online price: | £19.79 |
Saving: | Save £2.20 (10%) |
About Moral Principles
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.
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Moral Particularism
1.1 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
Bibliography
Index