| Webster Cook - 1888 - 74 sayfa
...conform to a universal law. This gives us what Kant calls the first form of the categorical ^imperative: £Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the...time will that it should become a universal law;'| or ""ct as *f tne maxim of thy action were to be^come by thy will a Universal Law of Nature.'] ( Ab.... | |
| Henry Hughes - 1890 - 392 sayfa
...points to no actions in particular, and which is universally valid. Such a law is the following : — " Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same...time will that it should become a universal law." 1 From this law Kant seeks to derive all specific rules of duty ; and in it he finds the secret of... | |
| Henry Sidgwick - 1890 - 566 sayfa
...translation). Here Kant first says, " There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time mill that it should become a universal lav. Now, if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this... | |
| James Houghton Kennedy - 1891 - 302 sayfa
...the truth of the definition of the command of that moral law which I have already quoted from Kant, "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the...time will that it should become a universal law." Thus, whatever other hypothesis the fact of the existence of conscience may be consistent with, it... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 532 sayfa
...ethics. He states it thus : — " 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." (pp. 54 — 5.) Again, subsequently, we read : — " Act on maxims which can at the same time have... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 536 sayfa
...his ethics. He states it thus :— " There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it thould become a univenal law." (pp. 54—5.) Again, subsequently, we read :— " Act on maxims which... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 614 sayfa
...referred to an ideal, yet various references are traceable. We may see one in the dictum of Kant — " Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same...time will that it should become a universal law." For this implies the thought of a society in which the maxim is aeted upon by all and universal benefit... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1893 - 520 sayfa
...limits. Taking no note of intermediate forms of the conception, we may instance among modern forma the one which it took in the mind of Kant. His rule...man must be imagined to act after a manner similar to the manner proposed, joined with the tacit implication that if suffering would be caused, the act... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1893 - 516 sayfa
...forms of the conception, we may instance among modern forma the one which it took in the miud of Kaut. His rule—" Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst...man must be imagined to act after a manner similar to the manner proposed, joined with the tacit implication that if suffering would be caused, the act... | |
| Richard Falckenberg - 1893 - 684 sayfa
...objects of experience, so the moral law determines not the content, but only the form of volition : " Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same...time will that it should become a universal law." The law of practical reason is a " categorical imperative." What does this designation mean, and what... | |
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