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Is justice holistic and particular?: a study of particularism.

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dc.contributor.advisorFarland, Douglas.
dc.contributor.authorDraper, Matthew Charles.
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-26T08:52:17Z
dc.date.available2010-11-26T08:52:17Z
dc.date.created2005
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the relative strengths of particularism and generalism in the area of meta-ethics in philosophy, utilising justice as a case study. More specifically, this thesis examines the claims of Jonathan Dancy in his book on moral particularism, Ethics Without Principles (2004), that one can construct a moral philosophy without reference to any general principles, or invariant reasons. His book is primarily a study of reasons, and this thesis also presents a study of reasons through the eyes f both the particularists and the generalists. At its core, the particularism holds holism to be true in the theory of reasons, whereas generalism, at its core, holds atomism to be true in the theory of reasons. In my thesis I find that the strongest form of atomism and the strongest form of generalism is Rossean generalism. I conclude that these two pictures combined provide a superior account of what reasons are and how they work than Dancy's particularism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/1933
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectTheses--Ethics.en_US
dc.subjectEthics.en_US
dc.subjectPrinciple (Philosophy)en_US
dc.subjectJustice (Philosophy)en_US
dc.titleIs justice holistic and particular?: a study of particularism.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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