Moral particularism

Moral particularism states that there is no set of moral principles that can be applied to every situation.

Quotes

• As opposed to most understandings of rules and law, ethics insists on the necessity of our response to others, and the unique circumstances of each such response, rather than attempting to reduce such responses to standard instances and norms of general application applicable to whole communities and capable of being largely settled in advance. Indeed, ethics constantly destabilizes and ruptures those rules and that settlement.
  • Desmond Manderson. (2006). Emmanuel Levinas and the philosophy of negligence. Tort Law Review 14, 1-18.