书目名称 | Universalizability | 副标题 | A Study in Morals an | 编辑 | Włodzimierz Rabinowicz | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Synthese Library | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 1. 1. The Principle of Universalizability-an informal explication This work is concerned with the so-called Principle of Universalizability. As we shall understand it, this principle represents a claim that moral properties of things (persons, actions, state of affairs, situations) are essentially independent of their purely ‘individual‘ or-as one often says -‘numerical‘ aspects. l Thus, if a thing, x, is better than another thing, y, then this fact is not dependent on x‘s being x nor on y‘s being y. If a certain person, a, has a duty to help another person, b, then this duty does not arise as a consequence of their being a and b, respectively. And if in a certain situation, W, it ought to be the case that certain goods are transferred from one person to another, then this moral obligation does not depend on the individual identities of the persons involved. The Universalizability Principle may also be expressed in terms of similarities. Instead of saying that the moral properties of x are essentially independent of the individual aspects of x, we may say that any object which is exactly similar to x, which is precisely like x in all non-individual, ‘qualitative‘ respects, must exh | 出版日期 | Book 1979 | 关键词 | 15th century; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; classification; concept; identity; individual; individuality; meta | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9484-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-009-9486-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-9484-3Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292 | issn_series | 0166-6991 | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1979 |
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