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The article discusses the idea of "generalism as a regulative ideal." Generalism as a regulative ideal is the idea that morality should be based on principles, but that principles should not be the only thing that determines what is moral. Instead, general principles should be used as a guide to determine what specific actions are moral.
Moral philosophy has long been dominated by the aim of understanding morality and the virtues in terms of principles. However, the underlying assumption that this is the best approach has received almost no defence, and has been attacked by particularists, who argue that the traditional link between morality and principles is little more than an unwarranted prejudice. In Principled Ethics, Michael Ridge and Sean McKeever meet the particularist challenge head-on, and defend a distinctive view they call "generalism as a regulative ideal."
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