Argunet Debates

Thinking rationally requires at least that one thinks consistently, and in ethics this just means taking the same feature to be the same reason wherever it occurs. Particularism, therefore, denies the rationality of moral thought.

1. Thinking rationally requires at least that one thinks consistently.
2. Ethics is a rational enterprise.
3. In ethics consistency means, taking the same feature to be the same reason wherever it occurs.
4. It is wrong that in ethics, a feature that makes one action better can make another one worse, and make no difference at all to a third.