Particularizing Particularism

Abstract

Abstract Although particularism has come under a good deal of scrutiny in the last quarter of a century, particularizing it is not easy, since the arguments and positions advanced by those known as particularists vary considerably. In this essay, I shall discuss three different but related forms of particularism, concerning, respectively, rules, reasons, and motivation. My conclusion will be that particularism has fewer implications for normative ethics than have sometimes been claimed,3 because its true forms are largely uncontroversial. I shall end with a brief defence of a form of Rossian generalism.

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