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" Ethics without principles / "
Jonathan Dancy.
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BL
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1001147
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b755517
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Dancy, Jonathan.
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Ethics without principles /\ Jonathan Dancy.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2004.
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x, 229 pages ;; 24 cm
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0199270023
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: 0199297681
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: 9780199270026
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: 9780199297689
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-224) and index.
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| Contents
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1. What are the options? -- 2. Contributory reasons -- 3. Beyond favouring -- 4. Dropping the catch -- 5. Holism and its consequences -- 6. Can holism be true? -- 7. Competing pictures -- 8. Knowing reasons -- 9. Intrinsic and extrinsic value -- 10. Are there organic unities? -- 11. Rationality, value, and meaning -- 12. Principles of rational valuing.
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"Jonathan Dancy presents an exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. The possibility of moral thought and judgement does not in any way depend on an adequate supply of principles. Dancy grounds this claim on a form of reasons-holism, holding that what is a reason in one case need not be any reason in another, and maintaining that moral reasons are no different in this respect from others. He puts forward a distinctive form of value-holism to go with the holism of reasons, and he gives a detailed discussion of the currently popular topic of 'contributory' reasons. Opposing positions of all sorts are summarized and criticized." "Ethics Without Principles is the definitive statement of particularist ethical theory, and will be required reading for all those working on moral philosophy."--Jacket.
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Ethics.
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Principle (Philosophy)
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Morale.
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Principe (Philosophie)
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Ethics.
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Ethics.
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Ethik
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Philosophie
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Principle (Philosophy)
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Principle (Philosophy)
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Ethik.
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Philosophie.
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Particularisme.
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| Dewey Classification
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171
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BJ1012.D262 2004
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