FULL-FLEDGED DEFENCE OF PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS AGAINST MORAL PARTICULARISM

• Authors: Jalilian Mohammad Sobhan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, I try to offer a full-fledged defence 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.

Keywords

EN

PARTICULARISM; GENERALISM; HOLISM; BRANDOM; PEREGRIN

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 77
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 608 – 625

Contributors

author

Jalilian Mohammad Sobhan

• KHANA Institute No. 907, Between Valiasr St. and Baradaran Mozaffar St., Enghelab Ave 1416935951 Teheran, Iran

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0173-7787

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2022.77.8.3