twistedbydsign99:
Its universally, not general. That aside I haven't quite gotten through the entire thing yet. So far I've been deriving from it a set of rules to apply to a hypothetical moral theory to evaluate it. Universality being a big one, it must apply to all men at all times. It had a fairly good discussion of morality and its nature as optional and objective.
I was going to make that correction but you beat me to it. It's "universally preferable behavior", not general. General would seem to imply acceptions to the rule, while universal would imply absolute consistancy in application. The way Molyneux describes it, UPB is not a moral theory in and of itself but a methodology for developing and analyzing moral theories.
I'm still reading the book myself right now.