Towards Justice and Virtue

A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning

Onora O'Neill (University of Cambridge)

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English

Cambridge University Press
02 December 1996

Philosophy; Philosophy: logic; Ethics & moral philosophy

"Towards Justice and Virtue challenges the rivalry between those who advocate only abstract, universal principles of justice and those who commend only the particularities of virtuous lives. Onora O'Neill traces this impasse to defects in underlying conceptions of reasoning about action. She proposes and vindicates an alternative, more modest, account of ethical reasoning, a reasoned way of answering the question ""who counts?"", and constructs a linked account of the principles that are basic for moving toward just institutions and virtuous lives."

By: Onora O'Neill (University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780521485593
ISBN 10: 0521485592
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 02 December 1996
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Overview: justice against virtue?; 2. Practical reason: abstraction and construction; 3. Focus: action, intelligibility and principles; 4. Scope: agents and subjects: who counts? 5. Structure: obligations and rights; 6. Content I: principles for all: towards justice; 7. Content II: Principles for all: towards virtue.

Reviews for Towards Justice and Virtue: A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning

' ... this book will take its place both as a mjaor statement of one version of a broadly Kantian approach to moral philosophy and as a standard work in its own right'. Jonathan Wolff, The Times Literary Supplement