Institutionalisation
A principle hardened into a rule enforced by an organisation that outlives its authors.
What it commits you to
Institutionalisation is the process by which a maxim becomes a statute, a norm, or a standing procedure. Rawls argued that the moral point of the original position is what gives rules their content; institutionalisation is what stops the reasons dissolving. It also introduces the pathology: institutions built for one crisis persist and acquire purposes of their own.
Which realms lean on this
Procedure, not conviction. This is the vocabulary of constitutions, audits and the people who have to sign.
governance · 2 realms — The Contractual Court, The Ubuntu Weave.
See also
Legitimacy
philosophyThe right to be obeyed, held by a rule or authority rather than by its author.
AI safety case
governanceA structured, auditable argument that a system's residual risk is acceptable.
AI incident reporting
governanceMandatory disclosure of system failures so that others can learn from them.
Reasonable rejectability
philosophyThe standard that a principle is unacceptable if someone could reasonably refuse to live under it.