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Jun 6, 2001 · Moral Particularism. Moral Particularism, at its most trenchant, is the claim that there are no defensible moral principles, that moral thought does not consist in the application of moral principles to cases, and that the morally perfect person should not be conceived as the person of principle.
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Moral particularism, on a first approximation, is the view that the moral status of an action is not in any way determined by moral principles; rather, it depends on the configuration of the morally relevant features of the action in a particular context. To illustrate, whether killing is morally wrong is not determined by whether it violates ...
Nov 22, 2016 · Moral Particularism and Moral Generalism. Among the many questions that arise in the attempt to come to philosophical grips with morality is what role, if any, moral principles have to play. Moral generalists think morality is best understood in terms of moral principles; moral particularists deny this.
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Moral particularism is a theory in normative ethics that runs counter to the idea that moral actions can be determined by applying universal moral principles. It ...
Mar 28, 2018 · Particularism has certainly cut much ice with the development of analytical ethics since the late 20th century. Its proto-idea goes back at least to Aristotle, who maintains that the major function of practical wisdom is to discern the moral truth via a close examination of the situational particulars. Particularism’s contemporary prominence ...
Nov 26, 2009 · Recent Work: Moral Particularism. 1. Introduction. Hailed by some as an insightful and welcome break from the dominant (or at least once dominant) ‘generalist’ approaches to moral philosophy, and dodged by critics as untenable or, more modestly, as constituting neither a new nor a unique approach to moral philosophy, moral particularism is ...
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Dec 7, 2000 · Abstract. Moral particularism is currently one of the most widely discussed-and hotly contested-issues in ethical theory. Spurred in large part by reactions to the writings of John McDowell and Jonathan Dancy, philosophers continue to divide between those who find particularism’s claims insightful and those who find them exaggerated or wrong ...
