UID:
almafu_9960119224802883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 230 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-04001-1
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0-511-62123-X
Content:
Towards Justice and Virtue challenges the rivalry between those who advocate only abstract, universal principles of justice and those who commend only the particularities of virtuous lives. Onora O'Neill traces this impasse to defects in underlying conceptions of reasoning about action. She proposes and vindicates a modest account of ethical reasoning and a reasoned way of answering the question 'who counts?', then uses these to construct linked accounts of principles by which we can move towards just institutions and virtuous lives.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Overview: justice against virtue? -- 1.1 Universalists and particularists: ancient origins -- 1.2 Universalists and particularists: current confrontations -- 1.3 Modernity, universalists and particularists: some popular stories -- 1.4 Modernity, universalists and particularists: some alternative stories -- Practical reason: abstraction and construction -- 2.1 Abstraction and idealization -- 2.2 Constructivism in ethics: Rawlsian models -- 2.3 Constructing practical reason -- 2.4 Constructing reason and constructing ethics -- Focus: action, intelligibility and principles -- 3.1 Focusing on results: intelligibility and consequences -- 3.2 Focusing on the sources of action: virtue and action -- 3.3 Universality, uniformity and differences -- 3.4 Empty formalism, rule-following and radical particularism -- 3.5 Some conclusions -- Scope: agents and subjects: who counts? -- 4.1 Ethical standing: universalists and particularists -- 4.2 Constructing the scope of ethical concern -- 4.3 Acknowledging plurality, connection and finitude -- 4.4 Denying plurality, connection and finitude -- 4.5 Cosmopolitan scope: distant strangers and future generations -- Structure: obligations and rights -- 5.1 Principles and requirements -- 5.2 Justice: obligations with rights -- 5.3 Required virtues: obligations without rights -- 5.4 Taking obligations seriously -- 5.5 Embodied obligations -- Content I: principles for all: towards justice -- 6.1 Inclusive universal principles -- 6.2 Conflict and consistency -- 6.3 Universalizability and the rejection of injury -- 6.4 Just institutions: rejecting injury -- 6.5 Just institutions: rejecting direct injury -- 6.6 Just institutions: rejecting indirect injury -- 6.7 Towards justice: principles, design and judgement -- Content II: principles for all: towards virtue.
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7.1 Required and optional virtues -- 7.2 Vindicating social virtues: why justice is not enough -- 7.3 Selective care and concern -- 7.4 Varieties of social virtue -- 7.5 Supererogation and optional excellences -- 7.6 Towards justice with virtue -- Bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-48559-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-48095-7
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621239
