This paper develops themes addressed in an article by Eric Wiland in the Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:466-8, where he aims to contribute to the debate concerning the moral status of abortion, and to emphasise the importance of analogies in moral argument. In the present paper I try to secure more firmly a novel understanding of why analogy is an essential component in the attempt to justif...

A standard framework for business ethics views the inquiry as an application of major ethical theories to specific issues in business. As these are largely presented being principled, exercise therefore becomes one applying general principles situations. Many adopting this approach have thus resisted implementation most prominent development theory recent history: that particularism. In article...

The article addresses Johanna Seibt's General Process Theory. Critique of substantialism or “myth substance” as a set presuppositions is presented. Substantialist are demonstrated to hamper an adequate solution persistence in time, partly because this issue tends be considered only with regard objects — persons things. A contradiction between the change attributes object Leibniz's law identity ...

In the article two versions of an argument for particularism are presented and discussed. The first has Avicenna as originator; Donald Mertz is the originator of the second version. While the first version takes for granted a reduction of polyadic attributes, the second does not. In fact, Mertz vehemently rejects the reduction. The article ends with an attempt to make it plausible that Mertz’s ...