Towards justice and virtue : a constructive account of practical reasoning /
O'Neill, Onora, 1941-
Towards justice and virtue : a constructive account of practical reasoning / Onora O'Neill. - x, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
Overview: justice against virtue? -- Practical reason: abstraction and construction -- Focus: action, intelligibility and principles -- Scope: agents and subjects: who counts? 5. Structure: obligations and rights -- Content I: principles for all: towards justice -- Content II: Principles for all: towards virtue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7.
"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."--Publisher description.
0521480957 9780521480956
95049161
Justice (Philosophy)
Justice
Virtues.
Practical reason
B105.J87 / O54 1996
170
Towards justice and virtue : a constructive account of practical reasoning / Onora O'Neill. - x, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
Overview: justice against virtue? -- Practical reason: abstraction and construction -- Focus: action, intelligibility and principles -- Scope: agents and subjects: who counts? 5. Structure: obligations and rights -- Content I: principles for all: towards justice -- Content II: Principles for all: towards virtue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7.
"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."--Publisher description.
0521480957 9780521480956
95049161
Justice (Philosophy)
Justice
Virtues.
Practical reason
B105.J87 / O54 1996
170