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    It is not the case that Beauchamp and Childress explicitly allow the common morality principles to be revised under pressure from considered judgments via reflective equilibrium.

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    • 1.If principles are revisable under pressure from any considered judgment, the framework lacks determinate content and becomes analytically circular.
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    • 2.Beauchamp and Childress designate common morality principles as universal scaffolding; unlimited revisability undermines their foundational status.
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    • 3.Reflective equilibrium without constraints on which judgments can revise principles risks collapsing into mere preference coherence, not genuine moral justification.
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    • 1.Reflective equilibrium is the standard methodology in applied ethics for resolving theoretical tensions between principles and real-world cases.
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    • 2.If common morality principles were entirely rigid, they could not accommodate moral progress or respond to novel ethical challenges.
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    • 3.Beauchamp and Childress explicitly describe their framework as dynamic, not foundationalist, permitting principle revision through coherence-seeking.
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