A particularist account of moral principles

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 Q4 ETHICS
Oskari Kuusela
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In this article I respond to Rebecca Stangl’s criticism of Jonathan Dancy’s outline for a particularist account of moral principles which identifies a number of important problems that do call for a response from particularists. In order to give such a response I develop a novel particularist account of moral principles that avoids the problems in question. By clarifying the distinction between articulating a principle and examining its truth I explain, pace Stangl, how moral principles can be derived from imaginary or actual individual cases, how principles derived from particular cases can create general moral presumptions, how such principles can be justified, and what the truth of moral principles consists in. I conclude with a discussion of the employment of principles to justify moral judgments, and explain how the proposed account of moral principles avoids a problem concerning moral responsibility that arises for generalist accounts of the justificatory use of principles, such as Stangl assumes, according to which a principle ought to show the actual moral relevance of a property in a given case. Overall my aim is to articulate, by answering six puzzles that Dancy has raised for moral philosophy, an alternative to the traditional generalist picture of the role and significance of moral principles in/for moral thought.
对道德原则的特殊解释
在这篇文章中,我回应了Rebecca Stangl对Jonathan Dancy对道德原则的特殊主义描述大纲的批评,该大纲确定了一些需要特殊主义者回应的重要问题。为了给出这样的回应,我对道德原则进行了一种新颖的特殊主义描述,以避免出现问题。通过澄清阐明原则和检验其真理之间的区别,我向斯坦格尔解释了道德原则如何从想象或实际的个案中得出,从特定个案中得出的原则如何产生一般的道德推定,这些原则如何被证明是合理的,以及道德原则的真理是什么。最后,我讨论了使用原则来证明道德判断的合理性,并解释了拟议的道德原则解释如何避免道德责任问题,而道德责任问题是由于对原则正当性使用的笼统解释而产生的,例如斯坦格尔假设的,根据该解释,原则应该在给定的情况下显示财产的实际道德相关性。总的来说,我的目标是通过回答丹西为道德哲学提出的六个难题,阐明道德原则在道德思想中的作用和意义的传统概括图景的替代方案。
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