What Is the Universalization Test
The Principle of Universalizability Is a Form of a Moral Test That Invites Us to Imagine a World in Which Any Proposed Action Is Also Adopted by Everyone Else...
The principle of universalizability is a form of a moral test that invites us to imagine a world in which any proposed action is also adopted by everyone else. … Universalizing some actions will lead to a self-contradiction, indicating that they are morally unacceptable.
What is the principle of universalization?
We call this mechanism for making moral judgments “universalization”: People decide whether it is morally permissible for a person to perform an action by asking what would happen if (hypothetically) everybody felt free to do the same.
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