Towards justice and virtue : a constructive account of practical reasoning / Onora O'Neill.

By:

O'Neill, Onora, 1941-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: x, 230 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521480957
9780521480956

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

170 20

LOC classification:

B105.J87 O54 1996

Online resources:

Sample text

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.

"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.

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