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The dogma of the priority of private morality
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Sorell, Tom (2015) The dogma of the priority of private morality. American Philosophical Quarterly, 52 (1). pp. 89-1010.
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Abstract
This article considers the relation between public and private morality as a stumbling block to a unified moral theory, and therefore as a source of skepticism about moral theory. It aims to show that some of the difficulties for theory in this area are a product of assuming that private morality has a certain priority over the public, and that moral life is unitary. These assumptions are questionable and perhaps question-begging. If they are dropped, the strength of the requirements of public morality increases, and utilitarianism and other impersonal theories appear less problematic as theories of public life, and of the relation between public and private life.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | American Philosophical Quarterly | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0003-0481 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 January 2015 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 52 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 89-1010 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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