ABSTRACT
Various ways of distinguishing the moral from the non-moral have been tried. A moral principle might be defined as one concerning things in our power and for which we can be held responsible. This would contrast moral principles with, for example, intellectual and aesthetic ones, which it might not be in our power to apply. Or a moral principle might concern the ultimate ends of human action, e.g. human welfare. Other views have it that a moral principle is one which people in fact prefer over competing principles, or else one which they should prefer. Others again make principles moral if a certain kind of sanction is applied when they are violated. UNIVERSALIZABILITY has also been used to define moral principles.
