ABSTRACT
PIETER H.COETZEE Usually moral controversies are addressed from a particular stand-point within one of two broad approaches. One takes the concrete circumstances of moral agents to be decisive, thus offering decision procedures which run on such particularist contingencies as ethnicity, race, gender, culture, and language. The other approach abstracts from these circumstances in an attempt to find a universal stand-point, one operating with a minimal definition of what is morally relevant, such as rationality, or human nature, or the common factors in our understanding of moral problems.
