Universalizability and the Metaphysics of Moral Particularism, Specified.
The article focuses on concept of moral particularism, which is the view that the moral status of an action is not in any way determined by moral principles. It discusses Jonathan Dancy's views on proponent in ethics of moral particularism, the idea that all moral reasons are particular and context-...
| Published in: | Philosophical Forum Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 309 - 325 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Fall2018
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| Summary: | The article focuses on concept of moral particularism, which is the view that the moral status of an action is not in any way determined by moral principles. It discusses Jonathan Dancy's views on proponent in ethics of moral particularism, the idea that all moral reasons are particular and context-sensitive, rather than general. The article talks about the concepts of holism and universalizability by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant as part of work Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. |
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