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Kant's Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysics Of Moral
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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.” (Abbott, ....
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.... Kant uses four examples to better describe the working of the categorical
imperative in Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals. The first
example is of a man who is suffering from many misfortunes in life and wishes to
commit sucicide on the basis of self-love. Kant declares that this cannot be
the categorical imperative at work because the maxim derived from self-love, to
shorten his life to avoid more pain, is a contradiction in itself for no man can
kill himself painlessly a.... |
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