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A Full-Fledged Defense of Principle-Based Ethics against Moral Particularism

Filozofia, 77 (2022), 8, 608 - 625.
Typ článku: State
Abstrakt

In this paper, I try to offer a full-fledged defense of principle-based ethics against moral particularism. My discussions not only refute particularists’ allegations against moral generalism but also provide a positive rationale for a principle-based approach in ethics. By borrowing insights from Brandom’s and Peregrin’s normative pragmatism, I describe the fundamental roles of moral principles. In my view, moral principles constitute morality, and they can function as default reasons in our moral deliberations. Moreover, I argue that my principle-based conception of ethics has advantages over particularism since it explains the phenomenological experience and covers basic intuitions in the moral domain that particularists have difficulty explaining.

Kľúčové slová

Particularism, Generalism, Principles, Holism, Brandom, Dancy, Peregrin

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