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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 Morals. It is part of the first formulation of...
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Universalizability as described above is a basic logical feature of all moral discourse. That is, in making a distinctively moral judgment, you commit yourself to its universalizability. If in making a judgment you refuse to recognize its universalizability, then you are actually refusing to make a moral judgment.
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Universalizability in philosophy. ... The appeal to universalizability in ethics dates from Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). ... Source: D Locke, 'The Trivializability of Universalizability', Philosophical Review (1968)
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universalizability The feature of moral judgements that whilst a moral judgement may concern a particular subject in a particular situation, it must ... Philosophy Dictionary: universalizability...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on universalizability (ethics), ...is, notwithstanding its element of choice, compatible with a substantial amount of reasoning about moral judgments. ... Universalizability is not a substantive moral principle but a logical feature of the moral terms: anyone who uses such terms...
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This paper will discuss the interaction between and effects of these two decisions on the requirement of universalizability, by determining whether the requirement is indeed seriously challenged by the two cases and, conversely, by assessing and analyzing these two cases in terms of the requirement.
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Universalizability is not the same as generality, for a moral judgment can be highly specific and detailed and need not be general or simple. ... The universalizability principle enables Hare to avoid the charge of irrationality that is usually lodged against non-cognitivism, to which his prescriptivism belongs,
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The logical properties of moral words he mainly appeals to are: the universalizability and the prescriptivity of a value-judgement. ... Since the main point of this paper is concerned with the affinity and the difference between Sidgwick's three principles and the applications of Hare's universalizability, I shall ignore...
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The Weak and the Strong Universalizability ... Let me distinguish the weak universalizability from the strong universalizability (although the words sound very similar, my distinction is quite different from Gibbard's 1988, 59-60;
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