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- Title
A Defense of a Particularist Research Program.
- Authors
Leibowitz, Uri
- Abstract
What makes some acts morally right and others morally wrong? Traditionally, philosophers have thought that in order to answer this question we must find and formulate exceptionless moral principles—principles that capture all and only morally right actions. Utilitarianism and Kantianism are paradigmatic examples of such attempts. In recent years, however, there has been a growing interest in a novel approach—Particularism—although its precise content is still a matter of controversy. In this paper I develop and motivate a new formulation of particularism as a research program and I show that my formulation is not vulnerable to the most common objections to particularism. Moreover, I argue that the particularist research program shows enough promise to warrant further exploration.
- Subjects
MORAL relativism; NEO-Kantianism; SUBJECTIVITY; MODERN philosophy -- 21st century; MODERN ethics; UTILITARIANISM; TWENTY-first century
- Publication
Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 2009, Vol 12, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
1386-2820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10677-008-9135-5