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In the past 25 years or so, the issue of ethical universalizability
has figured prominently in theoretical as well as practical ethics.
The term, 'universaliz ability' used in connection with ethical
considerations, was apparently first introduced in the mid-1950s by
R. M. Hare to refer to what he characterized as a logical thesis
about certain sorts of evaluative sentences (Hare, 1955). The term
has since been used to cover a broad variety of ethical
considerations including those associated with the ideas of
impartiality, consistency, justice, equality, and reversibility as
well as those raised in the familar questions: 'What if everyone
did that?' and 'How would you like it if someone did that to you?
But this recent effloresence of the use of the term
'universalizability' is something that has deep historical roots,
and has been central in various forms to the thinking about
morality of some of the greatest and most influential philosophers
in the western tradition. While the term is relatively new, the
ideas it is now used to express have a long history. Most of these
ideas and questions have been or can be formulated into a principle
to be discussed, criticized, or defended. As we discuss these ideas
below this prin ciple will be stated on a separate numbered line.
The concepts of justice and equality were closely linked in Greek
thought. These connections between these two concepts are apparent
even in two authors who were hostile to the connection, Plato and
Aristotle."
In the past 25 years or so, the issue of ethical universalizability
has figured prominently in theoretical as well as practical ethics.
The term, 'universaliz ability' used in connection with ethical
considerations, was apparently first introduced in the mid-1950s by
R. M. Hare to refer to what he characterized as a logical thesis
about certain sorts of evaluative sentences (Hare, 1955). The term
has since been used to cover a broad variety of ethical
considerations including those associated with the ideas of
impartiality, consistency, justice, equality, and reversibility as
well as those raised in the familar questions: 'What if everyone
did that?' and 'How would you like it if someone did that to you?
But this recent effloresence of the use of the term
'universalizability' is something that has deep historical roots,
and has been central in various forms to the thinking about
morality of some of the greatest and most influential philosophers
in the western tradition. While the term is relatively new, the
ideas it is now used to express have a long history. Most of these
ideas and questions have been or can be formulated into a principle
to be discussed, criticized, or defended. As we discuss these ideas
below this prin ciple will be stated on a separate numbered line.
The concepts of justice and equality were closely linked in Greek
thought. These connections between these two concepts are apparent
even in two authors who were hostile to the connection, Plato and
Aristotle."
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