From principles to practice normativity and judgement in ethics and politics
Knowledge aims to fit the world, and action to change it. In this collection of essays, Onora O'Neill explores the relationship between these concepts and shows that principles are not enough for ethical thought or action: we also need to understand how practical judgement identifies ways of en...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2018
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Why practical principles matter
- Modern moral philosophy and the problem of relevant descriptions
- Two cultures fifty years on
- Scientific inquiry and normative reasoning
- Abstract principles and practical judgement
- Abstraction, idealisation and ideology
- Normativity and practical judgement
- Instituting principles: between duty and action
- Experts, practitioners, and practical judgement
- Kant on indeterminacy, judgement, and interpretation
- Means, ends, and demands
- Reason and the resolution of disputes
- Consequences for non-consequentialists
- Demandingness and rules
- Applied ethics and practical judgement
- Applied ethics: naturalism, normativity, and public policy
- Practical principles and practical judgement in bioethics
- Enactable and enforceable: Kant's criteria for right and virtue