Towards Justice and Virtue
Towards Justice and Virtue
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GBPTowards 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.
- Distinguished author
- Will appeal to readers in political theory as well as philosophy
- Subject-matter also of interest to law departments and centres for human rights
Reviews & endorsements
' … 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
Product details
October 1996Paperback
9780521485593
244 pages
228 × 151 × 23 mm
0.34kg
Available
Table of 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.
