A Particularist Account of Moral Principles
In this article, I respond to Rebecca Stangl’s criticism of Jonathan Dancy’s outline for a particularist account of moral principles which identifies a number of important problems that call for a response from particularists. In order to give such a response, I develop a novel particularist account...
| Published in: | Ethical perspectives |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2021
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Ethical perspectives
Year: 2021, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 201-229 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dancy, Jonathan 1946-
/ Stangl, Rebecca
/ Principle
/ Moral judgment
/ Particularism (Philosophy)
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| RelBib Classification: | NCA Ethics TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | In this article, I respond to Rebecca Stangl’s criticism of Jonathan Dancy’s outline for a particularist account of moral principles which identifies a number of important problems that call for a response from particularists. In order to give such a response, I develop a novel particularist account of moral principles that avoids the problems in question. By clarifying the distinction between articulating a principle and examining its truth I explain, pace Stangl, how moral principles can be derived from imaginary or actual individual cases, how principles derived from particular cases can create general moral presumptions, how such principles can be justified, and what the truth of moral principles consists in. I conclude with a discussion of the employment of principles to justify moral judgments, and explain how the proposed account of moral principles avoids a problem concerning moral responsibility that arises for generalist accounts of the justificatory use of principles, such as Stangl assumes, according to which a principle ought to show the actual moral relevance of a property in a given case. Overall my aim is to articulate, by answering six puzzles that Dancy has raised for moral philosophy, an alternative to the traditional generalist picture of the role and significance of moral principles in/for moral thought. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1431 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical perspectives
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/EP.28.2.3289669 |