Principle of Overridingness
A moral principle should have the characteristic
of overriding competing non-moral interests.
One of five necessary conditions of an adequate moral principle:
- Prescriptive - imperative, in the form of a command
- Universal - equally binding on all moral agents
- Public - part of a social matrix, transparent to all moral agents
- Overriding - outweighing other non-moral considerations
- Practicable - within the capacity of ordinary moral agents
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