Towards Justice and Virtue : A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning

Author: O'Neill, Onora (University of Cambridge)

Philosophy: logic

Published on 28 August 1996 by CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 244 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
229 x 121 x 18 | 396g

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 a modest account of ethical reasoning and a reasoned way of answering the question 'who counts?', then uses these to construct linked accounts of principles by which we can move towards just institutions and virtuous lives.