Abstract

In this paper I am intending to articulate an answer to the powerful particularist objection to the notion of moral and legal reasoning based in universal principles. A particular way of specifying and contextualizing the universal principles is defended. This account preserves legal and moral justification, at the end of the day, as legal and moral subsumption. After that, I shall try to show how the virtues can be reconciled with this account, what is the right place of virtues in legal adjudication. Furthermore, the place of virtues in this view is reinforced by a virtue epistemology based approach.