... own activities, but only an implied recognition of such claims in the persons of others, and by implication a prescribing of limits. Taking no note of intermediate forms of the conception, we may instance among modern forms the one which it took in... Works - Sayfa 50Herbert Spencer tarafından - 1891Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Michael Boylan - 1999 - 244 sayfa
...creatures must agree that the categorical imperative "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" is the principle of an SPT that will generate the best moral system — 7,8 This rather interpretative... | |
| Peg Tittle - 2000 - 556 sayfa
...CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: UNIVERSAL LAW There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ... FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF MORALITY: THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE ',''.•' •... | |
| Ann Numhauser-Henning - 2001 - 388 sayfa
...One could compare this to other non-utilitarian principles, eg the Kantian Categorical imperative: 'Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the...time will that it should become a universal law'; and deduced from that: 'Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or that of another,... | |
| Anthony J. LaVopa - 2001 - 476 sayfa
...Law as the Categorical Imperative. All duties, Kant argued, could be derived from the imperative to "act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law."20 Kant's failure, Fichte explained to Reinhold, lay in not explaining "why I should make maxims... | |
| Aniket Jaaware - 2001 - 576 sayfa
...may be called that of Morality. .. There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.u It is from this fundamental categorical imperative that Kant derives his descriptions of morality,... | |
| Franklin I. Gamwell - 2001 - 380 sayfa
...moral content it may seem to have. In an earlier chapter, I argued that his categorical imperative, "act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the...same time will that it should become a universal law" (1949: 38, emphasis deleted), is empty, because Kant sought to define true self-understandings in a... | |
| James Michael Martinez, William Donald Richardson, D. Brandon Hornsby - 2002 - 442 sayfa
...Similarly, a person must act as a rational, autonomous, moral agent free from excuses and justifications. "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the...time will that it should become a universal law," Kant writes.41 In other words, follow the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto... | |
| Allen Verhey - 2002 - 546 sayfa
...this "post- conventional level" 9. Witness Kant's first formulation of the "categorical imperative": "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a oniversal taw" (1mmanuel Kant, Fondamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans. Thomas K.... | |
| Steven M. Cahn - 2002 - 156 sayfa
...consequently, any action it motivates is immoral. According to Kant, then, the supreme moral principle is: "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time mil that it should become a universal law."* Unfortunately, this principle prohibits actions that ought... | |
| Daniel E. Lee - 2002 - 164 sayfa
...Kant, whose categorical imperative — "Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" — is a frequent reference point for discussions of ethics.19 In other cases, they have a far less illustrious... | |
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