id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 6395w665299 Rebecca Lynn Stangl A Principled Sensibility: Rules and the Life of Virtue 2007 .txt text/plain 354 12 36 Turning to the constructive task of giving a virtue-theoretic account of moral rules, I propose a novel analysis of non-trivial absolute moral prohibitions which articulates their importance without reducing the virtuous agent's moral deliberations to a mechanical application of rules. What is more, there are positive reasons for rejecting the latter; neither a satisfactory account of the role of generalities in moral discourse nor of moral motivation can be given if it is true. cache/6395w665299.txt txt/6395w665299.txt