Abstract
Contextual Ethics – Developing Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches
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The main focus of moral philosophy was on the development of prescriptive, universalist theories such as theories of contractualism, utilitarianism, obligation, rights, and so on, and this work was most often considered to be independent of an understanding of the actual social and ordinary life contexts of human beings
Virtue ethicists (Elisabeth Anscombe, John McDowell, Bernard Williams), Wittgensteinians (Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, Alice Crary), and care ethicists (Joan Tronto, Virginia Held, Carol Gilligan), thinkers from critical theory (Alex Honneth, Amy Allen, Rahel Jaeggi) as well as philosophers who draw on a number of these positions have all helped in providing more context-sensitive approaches to moral
Summary
Terms of use This work is brought to you by the University of Southern Denmark. Unless otherwise specified it has been shared according to the terms for self-archiving. The interest in context grows out of a series of criticisms of the paradigm of moral theory dominant in moral philosophy in the 20th and start of the 21st century.
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