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It can be expressed as ?°if I want to ?­, then I ought to ?­?±. For example, if you don??t want to get sick, then you ought to wash your hands carefully. You wash your hands because you don??t want to get sick, and not because the act that washing your hands itself is good or not...
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There are two forms of categorical imperatives, the first one is ?°act only on that maxim that you can will as a universal law?±. In another word, whether I decide to do this thing or not is decided by whether I can will or accept that all people do it...
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kant's moral theory I think Kant??s Moral theory is one complement to the Utilitarianism because one deficit of Utilitarianism is it is sometimes impossible to foresee the consequences, and Kant brought up that ?°the consequences of our acts are not always in our control and things do not always turn out as we want?±...	3 / 641
Kant's Formalism Theory The theories of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, have had an impact on the formulation and shaping of ethics today. Immanuel Kant graced this earth from 1724 to 1804...	3 / 709
Kant's Theory The Ethical Theorist Immanuel Kant, was born in 1724 and died in 1804 at the age of 80. He was the first philosopher to publish in Germany, and his theory in which he devised was called Deontology...	4 / 1038
Kant's Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysics Of Moral The central concept of Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals is the categorical imperative. "The conception of an objective principle, in so far as it is obligatory for a will, is called a command (of reason), and the formula of the command is called an Imperative...	3 / 792
Objections to the first formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative The first formulation of the Categorical Imperative is defined by Kant to "act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"...	5 / 1239
Kant's Humanity Formula "Few formulas in philosophy have been so widely accepted and variously interpreted as Kant's injunction to treat humanity as an end in itself"(Hill, 38)...	6 / 1634
Kant's Philosophy Kant's most influential positions are found in The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (hereafter, “Groundwork”) but he developed, enriched, and in some cases modified those views in later works such as The Critique of Practical Reason, The Metaphysics of Morals, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View and Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason...	1 / 184