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The Many Moral Particularisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Sean McKeever  and
Michael Ridge
Sean McKeever
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY14850-7286, USA
Michael Ridge
Affiliation:
The University of Edinburgh, EdinburghEH8 9JX, UK
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What place, if any, moral principles should or do have in moral life has been a longstanding question f or moral philosophy. For some, the proposition that moral philosophy should strive to articulate moral principles has been an article of faith. At least since Aristotle, however, there has been a rieh counter-tradition that questions the possibility or value of trying to capture morality in principled terms. In recent years, philosophers who question principled approaches to morality have argued under the banner of moral particularism. Particularists can be found in diverse areas of philosophical inquiry, and their positions and arguments are of broad interest. Despite its importance, a proper evaluation of particularism has been hindered both by the diversity of arguments employed to defend it, and, perhaps more significantly, by the diversity of positions that can fairly claim to be particularist.

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 83 - 106
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Copyright © The Authors 2005

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