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WHAT DOES HOLISM HAVE TO DO WITH MORAL PARTICULARISM?
Author(s) -
McKeever Sean,
Ridge Michael
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2005.00273.x
Subject(s) - holism , mistake , epistemology , morality , opposition (politics) , unanimity , philosophy , sociology , law , political science , politics
Moral particularists are united in their opposition to the codification of morality, and their work poses an important challenge to traditional ways of thinking about moral philosophy. Defenders of moral particularism have, with near unanimity, sought support from a doctrine they call ‘holism in the theory of reasons.’ We argue that this is all a mistake. There are two ways in which holism in the theory of reasons can be understood, but neither provides any support for moral particularism.