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9Moralischer PartikularismusIn Ralf Stoecker, Christian Neuhäuser & Marie-Luise Raters (eds.), Handbuch Angewandte Ethik, Verlag J.b. Metzler. pp. 95-102. 2011.Die Geschichte der normativen Ethik ist in weiten Teilen eine Geschichte von Versuchen, Prinzipien zu identifizieren und verteidigen, die uns erklären, warum bestimmte Handlungen, Institutionen und Charaktereigenschaften moralisch richtig oder falsch, gerecht oder ungerecht, tugendhaft oder untugendhaft sind. Moralische Partikularisten stellen diese Hegemonie moralischer Prinzipien in Frage. Der Begriff des Partikularismus beschreibt eine Reihe von Positionen, die moralischen Prinzipien und prin…Read more
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16Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations: Schwenkenbecher, Anne, New York: Routledge, 2021, pp. xiii + 174, US$160 (hb) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 101 (1): 240-243. 2023.Anne Schwenkenbecher’s Getting Our Act Together offers an in-depth and timely account of how our ability to act jointly can create so-called joint moral duties. Getting Our Act Together not only co...
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13Moral principlesBloomsbury Academic. 2014.The history of moral philosophy has been dominated by attempts to find and defend the correct moral principle or set of principles. However, over the last two decades the assumption that morality can and should be understood in terms of principles has come under attack from several quarters. The most radical attack has come from so-called moral particularists according to whom principles are at best useless and at worst a hindrance to successful moral reasoning and action.Why should - and how ca…Read more
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264Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations (Routledge) by Schwenkenbecher, Anne (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
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111A Kantian solution to the problem of imperceptible differencesEuropean Journal of Philosophy 27 (4): 837-851. 2019.There are cases such as climate change where the cumulative effects of the actions of several agents lead to grave harm but where no individual agent can make a perceptible difference for the better or worse. According to Derek Parfit, dealing with such imperceptible difference cases requires substantial changes to the way we think about morality. In On What Matters, Parfit builds on Kantian Ethics to address the problem of imperceptible differences, but the transformation that Kant's theory und…Read more
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23Die Fähigkeit aus Gründen zu handeln. Kommentar zu Determined by Reasons: A Competence Account of Acting for a Normative ReasonZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 72 (3): 416-420. 2018.
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24Moralisch urteilen ohne Prinzipien? Überlegungen zu Jan Gertkens Prinzipien in der EthikZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 69 (1): 78-83. 2015.
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38Der Vorrang des Pflichtbegriffs in kollektiven KontextenZeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 2 (2): 87-120. 2015.Obgleich die Ausdrücke ‚moralische Pflicht’ und ‚moralische Verantwortung’ auf den ersten Blick nahezu austauschbar scheinen, ist in einigen Debatten dennoch fast ausschließlich von moralischer Verantwortung die Rede. Dies gilt insbesondere für die moralische Beurteilung von individuellen Handlungen in kollektiven Kontexten. Hier scheint die Rede von einer ‚kollektiven Verantwortung‘ besonders attraktiv zu sein. In diesem Aufsatz setze ich mich diesem Trend entgegen und argumentiere dafür, dem P…Read more
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184Missing the Target: Jonathan Dancy’s Conception of a Principled EthicsJournal of Value Inquiry 45 (1): 49-58. 2011.
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339Principle-Based Moral JudgementEthical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (2): 339-354. 2013.It is widely acknowledged that moral principles are not sufficient to guide moral thought and action: they need to be supplemented by a capacity for judgement. However, why can we not rely on this capacity for moral judgement alone? Why do moral principles need to be supplemented, but are not supplanted, by judgement? So-called moral particularists argue that we can, and should, make moral decisions on a case-by-case basis without any principles. According to particularists, the person of moral …Read more
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39Dominic Roser / Christian Seidel, Ethik des Klimawandels. Eine Einführung: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2013, 167 pages, ISBN 978-3-534-26265-6, EUR 29,90Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (2): 523-525. 2016.
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |