The role of examples in moral philosophy
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Alan Brinton
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Article
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1988
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Contemporary moral philosophy for the most part relegates examples to a negative role, as counter-examples. In this essay a view is articulated according to which the example has a much more positive and more fundamental role to play in the argumentation of moral philosophy: according to this view,