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How does the Kantian Categorical Imperative function for delusional agents?
As I understand it, Kant's Categorical Imperative can be summed up in two formulations:
1. Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal ...
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Would normative zero-grounding be the foundation of ethics?
In terms of grounding-talk in metaphysics as a matter of metaphysical explanations, a zero-grounded fact is one that is grounded by the empty set of metaphysically explanatory facts (see e.g. Litland[...
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Is there something inauthentic about committed integrity?
How does committed integrity mean having already made up my mind, when faced with challenges, which seems inauthentic?
A person is subject to many conflicting desires. If one simply acted
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If Kantian radical evil is universal (for human beings), why isn't the maxim of inverted priorities universalizable without contradiction?
In the Religion, Kant declares that inverting the priority of duty/virtue over happiness is radically evil. Now sometimes he mentions imperatives like, "Act according to the truth," and, &...
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If the three primary formulations of the categorical imperative are successive refinements (per Allen Wood), why doesn't Kant mention this later?
If there is an ordering to the UL (universal law), H (humanity), and LO (law unto oneself) formulae, such that UL < H < LO, then wouldn't Kant have thought, in the Religion, that putting the ...
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Are there arbitrarily/too many ways to formulate the categorical imperative?
If I remember correctly (and so correct me if I'm wrong!), but Kant says somewhere that the various formulations of the categorical imperative (CI) are approximations of a perfect but singular ...
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What does "categorical" mean for Kant?
I have always understood the word Category, in "categorical imperative", as a synonym for absolute, universal. It's the usual way we understand the word nowadays.
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Does Kant think we have an imperfect duty to not take intoxicants?
I want to smoke a cigarette to feel better. I want to smoke opium to feel better.
I think we can ignore the consequences of everyone performing this action (in similar situations), mass addiction and ...
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If the modern understanding of the categorical/hypothetical distinction is better than Kant's, does this undermine the categorical imperative?
In first-order logic (FOL), we have dedicated connectives for conditionals and disjunctions. Again in FOL, we can turn a conditional into a disjunction, though. Frege's logic has a judgment stroke, or ...
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How this principle related to Golden Rule and Eye for an Eye is called?
Had long admiration to this example:
When criminals were sent to isolated island centuries ago they suddenly realized that it's not fun anymore when everyone is criminal. And switched to one of most ...
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How is it Kant's view that lying is always wrong consistent with his view that killing in self-defense is permissable?
In his essay, "On the Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns" Kant seems to be arguing that lying is always wrong, even if it could save someone's life from a murderer. He ...
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Is Kantian ethics silent on most complex moral questions?
The examples Kant gives for the application of the CI (categorical imperative) are relatively simple and unproblematic.
Of course, it's contentious to regard lying for the greater good as immoral, but ...
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A concept of strong free will that's able to be represented in category theory?
Are there any such things as category theories where the category is an indeterminist/postdeterminist form of free will? Let's say, maybe it is a category where each object is an object of choice, ...
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Misconception surrounding Kant's categorical imperative?
It is widely known that Kant's first formulation of the categorical imperative, in his Metaphysics of Ethics, is as shown:
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that ...
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We-intentions and the kingdom-of-ends version of the categorical imperative
One of Allen Wood's most finely ground axes was his contention that, notwithstanding certain translations/interpretations of Kant's writings on categorical imperatives, the three primary formulations ...
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