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Normative Principles and Practical Ethics: A Response to O’Neill
Author(s) -
BROWNLEE KIMBERLEY
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2009.00447.x
Subject(s) - normative , normative ethics , relation (database) , sociology , epistemology , environmental ethics , meta ethics , information ethics , philosophy , law , political science , computer science , database
This article briefly examines Onora O’Neill's account of the relation between normative principles and practical ethical problems with an eye to suggesting that philosophers of practical ethics have reason to adopt fairly high moral ambitions to be edifying and instructive both as educators and as advisors on public policy debates .