4369 | It is not universals we must perceive for virtue, but particulars, seen as intrinsically good [Aristotle, by Achtenberg] |
5158 | Actions concern particular cases, and rules must fit the cases, not the other way round [Aristotle] |
5237 | We cannot properly judge by rules, because blame depends on perception of particulars [Aristotle] |
23362 | All human ills result from failure to apply preconceptions to particular cases [Epictetus] |
20134 | Moralities extravagantly address themselves to 'all', by falsely generalising [Nietzsche] |
2935 | No two actions are the same [Nietzsche] |
24109 | Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed) [Nietzsche] |
22475 | Moral generalisation is wrong, because we should evaluate individual acts [Nietzsche, by Foot] |
9256 | I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do [Prichard] |
9257 | The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint [Prichard] |
9262 | The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking [Prichard] |
5908 | Prima facie duties rest self-evidently on particular circumstance [Ross] |
18671 | The ground for an attitude is not a thing's 'goodness', but its concrete characteristics [Ewing] |
22343 | If I attend properly I will have no choices [Murdoch] |
21025 | Particularism gives no guidance for the future [Nussbaum] |
18664 | Maybe the particularist moral thought of women is better than the impartial public thinking of men [Kymlicka] |
20214 | Virtue theory can have lots of rules, as long as they are grounded in virtues and in facts [Zagzebski] |
4336 | Any strict ranking of virtues or rules gets abandoned when faced with particular cases [Hursthouse] |