Download or read book Principled Ethics written by Sean McKeever and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral philosophy has long been dominated by the aim of understanding morality and the virtues in terms of principles. However, the underlying assumption that this is the best approach has received almost no defence, and has been attacked by particularists, who argue that the traditional link between morality and principles is little more than an unwarranted prejudice. In Principled Ethics, Michael Ridge and Sean McKeever meet the particularist challenge head-on, and defend a distinctive view they call "generalism as a regulative ideal."