Ethics Without Principles

by Jonathan Dancy

Book Overview

What is a moral principle, and what do moral principles tell us? What if all suggested principles were defeated by counter-examples? Would moral judgement still be possible? In this book Jonathan Dancy argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. This claim, known as 'particularism', has recently been attracting a great deal of attention, and Dancy is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199270023
• ISBN13: 9780199270026
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.5"