Towards Justice and Virtue: A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning

ISBN-13: 9780521485593 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 244 str.

Onora O'Neill

Opis

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 an alternative, more modest, account of ethical reasoning, a reasoned way of answering the question -who counts?-, and constructs a linked account of the principles that are basic for moving toward just institutions and virtuous lives.

Recenzje

' … this book will take its place both as a mjaor statement of one version of a broadly Kantian approach to moral philosophy and as a standard work in its own right'. Jonathan Wolff, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. Overview: justice against virtue?; 2. Practical reason: abstraction and construction; 3. Focus: action, intelligibility and principles; 4. Scope: agents and subjects: who counts? 5. Structure: obligations and rights; 6. Content I: principles for all: towards justice; 7. Content II: Principles for all: towards virtue.