moral particularism

His position is therefore equivalent, in this subject, to J. Dancy's later moral particularism.

In Moral Particularism, ed.

"Moral particularism", in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Moral particularism is the view that there are no moral principles and that moral judgement can be found only as one decides particular cases, either real or imagined.

After having worked on problems of epistemology, and more particularly on the nature of perception (argument from illusion), he emerged as the leading proponent in ethics of moral particularism, the idea that all moral reasons are particular and context-sensitive, rather than general.