Examples, Exemplars, Principles.
We find out what is right to do, both when the problem is a technical and when it is a moral one, by heeding what we or others did in similar situations and how we or they then fared. This is to say, we find out what is right to do by means of examples. This claim is contested by exemplarists who ho...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 1019 - 1028 |
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