Should you Abandon your Principles?

Come join us for some informal philosophical discussion. No prior knowledge or research is required, but an open mind is.
This week, let's interrogate whether it's right to hold firm to your principles, or be more flexible.

Edmund Burke distrusted abstract principles and trusted accumulated practice; Kant distrusted situational judgment and trusted reason. Where do you fall on that spectrum?

Discussion questions:

1. When a principle yields a verdict that feels clearly wrong in a specific case, which should you trust — the principle or the intuition? What would it take to overrule either?
2. Do principles actually guide behavior, or do they mostly describe patterns in behavior we were already producing for other reasons?
3. Is it possible to be ethical in an unprincipled way?
4. What standards do you apply to determine if your principles are good?
5. Do principles actually guide behavior, or do they mostly describe patterns in behavior we were already producing for other reasons?
6. Is the world too complicated to effectively distill down to a small number of principles?