WEDGE PRINCIPLE

WEDGE PRINCIPLE

wedge principle. The principle that an act is wrong in a specific instance if, when raised to a general level of conduct, it would injure humanity.

¡°[T]here is the familiar argument from the ¡®wedge principle,¡¯ which is used to deny the possibility of looking at particular circumstances in applying moral rules.¡± Glanville Williams, The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law 315 (1957).


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