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Abstract Morality, Concrete Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Stephen R. L. Clark
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Practitioners of disciplines whose problems are debated by moral philosophers regularly complain that the philosophers are engaged in abstract speculation, divorced from ‘real-life’ consequences and responsibilities, that it is the practitioners (doctor, research scientist, politician) who must take the decisions, and that they cannot (and should not) act in accordance with strict abstract logic.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 22: Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Problems , September 1987 , pp. 35 - 53
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1987

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