...have been made to paraphrase and to explain this rule. One such is thus given by Kant : " Act only that maxim whereby thou canst, at the same time will, that it should become universal law." ' I employ this instance because Kant's statement, in what Herbert Spencer calls allotropic...

...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...

...our Creator, for herein lies the required sanction of morality. Kant's rendering of the moral law is, "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst, at the same time, will that it should become universal law." A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes, finding more evil than satisfaction...

...prescribing these limits for all Hebrews, tacitly assert that life, property, good name, &c., musi be respected in one as in another. In a form which...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...

...appropriate to men : there is in it no direct recognition of any claim which each has to the results oi his own activities, but only an implied recognition...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...

...properly represents as necessary.2 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. Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then,...

...reproduction. The whole matter is summed up in Kant's famous categorical imperative: "Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. " In other words, act as you would willingly see all men act toward each other and toward you under...

...appropriate to men : there is in it no direct recognition of any claim which each has to the results of bis own activities, but only an implied recognition of...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...

...First he says that an act is moral when it is prompted by the sense of duty, then he tells me to " act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same...time will that it should become a universal law." If he adheres to the first proposition, the murderer is moral ; if to the second, then the sense of...

...First he says that an act is moral when it is prompted by the sense of duty, then he tells me to " act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same...time will that it should become a universal law." If he adheres to the first proposition, the murderer is moral ; if to the second, then the sense of...