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Moral particularism is an ethical theory that emphasizes the importance of context and individual circumstances in making moral judgments. Unlike positions such as Kant that support universalism, which seeks to apply fixed moral principles to all situations, particularism recognizes the complexity and uniqueness of each moral dilemma. | Moral particularism is an ethical theory that emphasizes the importance of context and individual circumstances in making moral judgments. Unlike positions such as Kant that support universalism, which seeks to apply fixed moral principles to all situations, particularism recognizes the complexity and uniqueness of each moral dilemma. | ||
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Syllogism typically begins with the Reader evidence which says that ethics must be understood in their own terms, and that you can't use rules of some sort to explain ethics, because they always carry certain assumptions eg. You can't explain the rules of chess and how the game works outside the terminology of chess. | Syllogism typically begins with the Reader evidence which says that ethics must be understood in their own terms, and that you can't use rules of some sort to explain ethics, because they always carry certain assumptions eg. You can't explain the rules of chess and how the game works outside the terminology of chess. | ||
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Humility - says that universal judgement is epistemic arrogance, and that because humans have limitations, it isn't realistic to assume a universal rule can apply in every situation; basically being dogmatic about specific things is bad for functioning in the world. | Humility - says that universal judgement is epistemic arrogance, and that because humans have limitations, it isn't realistic to assume a universal rule can apply in every situation; basically being dogmatic about specific things is bad for functioning in the world. | ||
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The fun thing about particularism is that the offense can be recycled every topic, because all you have to say is that the AC is an absolute principle, and that a universal statement such as the resolution doesn't meet the call for particularism, so auto negate. | |||