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Practical Principles & Practical Judgment
Author(s) -
O'NEILL ONORA
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3527952
Subject(s) - craft , honor , deliberation , work (physics) , engineering ethics , epistemology , sociology , law and economics , psychology , computer science , law , political science , philosophy , engineering , internet privacy , history , mechanical engineering , archaeology , politics
Those who deny that general principles are important for moral deliberation have mostly misunderstood how principles work. Principles do not give us algorithms for living. They identify broad requirements we must live up to, but they do not actually tell us what to do. We are left instead to craft responses that honor our general commitments using the materials of the case at hand.