Finally, let us dissect the genius ideology that Sir Immanuel Kant wished everyone would use to have a more perfect system of government in what is now well known as the categorical imperative. Kant attentively elucidates the bases for the structure of metaphysics to morals. He presumed that there had to be a universal proposition that was “purely based on abstraction” that will direct us to the right set of principles we could use at any given time. (Kant,Cahn, 97) Characterizing two forms of imperatives (a mandate to act in a particular fashion), a categorical and hypothetical imperative, Kant has the means to setting up some groundwork of moral behavior we choose to act out on.The first of the two is is the hypothetical imperative that is merely the act of carrying out an
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This belief is premised upon not acting coercively to acquire an action or thing you may be preying upon. Absolutely nobody likes being used heinously to help someone for malicious reasons, so it should then be self-evident to not treat others as objects. Instead, all humans should strive to help any people who are in need of your help as an end. To refrain from acting like a numbskull could help prevent so many predicaments that come from not thinking. This method will force you to think before you say anything and always use the same measures of treating others as the ones you’d like to be treated with. Similarities one could draw to this philosophy would be that of Aristotle’s virtue in which they both essential promote virtue as their means of acting. They both believed that treating situations with a good moral scope is what one ought to do when handling difficult problems. A beautiful quality that the categorical imperative can hoist proudly is that it is the most universal ideology that can lead to almost the same result no matter who the agent
This belief is premised upon not acting coercively to acquire an action or thing you may be preying upon. Absolutely nobody likes being used heinously to help someone for malicious reasons, so it should then be self-evident to not treat others as objects. Instead, all humans should strive to help any people who are in need of your help as an end. To refrain from acting like a numbskull could help prevent so many predicaments that come from not thinking. This method will force you to think before you say anything and always use the same measures of treating others as the ones you’d like to be treated with. Similarities one could draw to this philosophy would be that of Aristotle’s virtue in which they both essential promote virtue as their means of acting. They both believed that treating situations with a good moral scope is what one ought to do when handling difficult problems. A beautiful quality that the categorical imperative can hoist proudly is that it is the most universal ideology that can lead to almost the same result no matter who the agent