Universalizability
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
The 'Principle of Universalizability' holds that an adequate moral principle should be binding on all moral agents
(i.e., universalizable).
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