Damien Keown
\nGoldsmiths College, University of London<\/p>\n
This article suggests that due to a restricted understanding of the nature and scope of ethical theory, particularism discounts prematurely the possibility of a metatheory of Buddhist ethics. The textual evidence presented in support of particularism is reconsidered and shown to be consistent with a metatheoretical reading. It is argued that writers who have adopted a particularist approach based on W. D. Ross\u2019s \u201cPrincipalism\u201d\u2014such as Tessa Bartholomeusz in her study of just war ideology in Sri Lanka\u2014have failed to give a satisfactory analysis of the moral dilemmas they have identified. Although particularism rightly draws attention to stories as important sources of moral data, it fails to disprove that the diversity of such evidence can be explained by a single comprehensive theory. <\/p>\n
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