Reasons and Moral Principles

In Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press. pp. 839-61 (2018)
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This paper is a survey of the generalism-particularism debate and related issues concerning the relationship between normative reasons and moral principles.

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