Practical contexts /

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Author / Creator:Potrč, Matjaž.
Imprint:Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (180 pages)
Language:English
Series:Practical philosophy ; Bd. 8
Practical philosophy ; Bd. 8.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11204117
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Other authors / contributors:Strahovnik, Vojko.
ISBN:9783110320862
311032086X
9783937202617
3937202617
3110320606
9783110320602
3937202617
9783110320602
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:The thought and the findings of moral particularism are extended to contextualism. Moral particularism asserts that reasons for moral actions are not governed by general principles, but by a mixture of situation bound deliberation and values. Particularism was established in the area of moral philosophy and its main results include delimitation with various forms of moral generalism. Many insights were accumulated along the way. The book claims that a serious contextualist approach needs to embrace particularist normativity. Thesis is then applied to the traditional areas of philosophy such as.
Other form:Print version: Strahovnik, Vojko. Practical Contexts. Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2004 9783110320602