An Axiomatic Approach to the Design of Moral Codes

For a moral code of conduct to gain universal acceptance in society, it would have to satisfy minimum requirements of consistency and procedural justice. The so-called prescriptivity and universalizability principles in ethics together say that any moral judgement prescribes � This paper was presented at 14th SAET Conference, 2014, Tokyo. We thank all of the participants for their valuable comments. A very early version of the paper superseded