- The
concept of
universalizability was set out by the 18th-century
German philosopher Immanuel Kant as part of his work
Groundwork of the
Metaphysics of...
- The
general concept or
principle of
moral universalizability is that
moral principles, maxims, norms, facts, predicates, rules, etc., are
universally true;...
- of the
categorical imperative,
sometimes called the
principle of
universalizability: "Act only
according to that
maxim whereby you can at the same time...
- propositions,
ethical sentences function similarly to
imperatives which are
universalizable—whoever
makes a
moral judgment is
committed to the same
judgment in...
-
formulated the
categorical imperative in
various ways. His
principle of
universalizability requires that, for an
action to be permissible, it must be possible...
- Top-down
reasoning in
ethics is when the
reasoner starts from
abstract universalizable principles and then
reasons down them to
particular situations. Bottom-up...
- example,
saying that "Murder is wrong" not only
entails acceptance of a
universalizable obligation not to kill, but also
leads to
avoidance of the act of killing...
- Hare's
version of
prescriptivism requires that
moral prescriptions be
universalizable, and
hence actually have
objective values, in
spite of
failing to be...
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Universalism Philosophical Moral universalism Universal value Universality Universalizability Economic and
societal Cultural universal Universal basic income Universal...
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Jouni Reinikainen, "The
Golden Rule and the
Requirement of
Universalizability."
Journal of
Value Inquiry. 39(2): 155–168, 2005. Karl Popper, The...
