by Mary Warnock
Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford
There have been moral arguments claiming universal application and purporting to reduce moral decisions to a single pattern, but in fact there are different kinds of moral arguments proper to different moral situations. Principles are not always needed, but they are sometimes, and sometimes in judging an action you need to try to get rid of ready-made categories.
Second of a group of six talks on contemporary moral philosophy
Con moral philosophy be neutralt, by Patrick Gardiner : September 16