Maxim

the police officer should kill the serial killer, Kant’s categorical imperative is clear: Since the police officer cannot rationally desire a world in which everybody killed others to reduce crime, his maxim fails the test of a contradiction in the will. Therefore, he should act according to the maxim of not killing people, even if to prevent future violent actions. In this case, that would mean sparing the serial…

There is the belief of separate and differing consciences and notions of morality, but then there is the belief of one unified ideal moral reality, where simple, consistent maxims become an omnipresent, all-including law. Immanuel Kant, with the use of his categorical imperative, eliminated any confusions or contradicting maxims and created the outline and expectations of humans to form The Kingdom of Ends. What is right to one must be right to and followed by all Chan 6 for it to hold any…

it looks like the drug dealers are morally permissible because if we only use the categorical imperative, without there maxim, one would think that they are being moral. We would want everybody to take care of the people in their neighborhood, but as we see that is not morally permissible because deontology is built around the maxim of the individual. The drug dealer’s maxim is not to make their people happy, but instead it is so that the dealers can move up a rung on the ladder. They are using…

The unconditional "absoluteness" of Kant 's moral judgements can creates a problem in instances of conflicting rules, or maxims. When deontological theory is applied to an instance of two conflicting absolute rules, such as 'should lie to protect an innocent man, ' it offers no clearly ethical answer. In Kantian theory 'do not lie ' and 'do not let innocent people die '…

transportation at the time. This novel also reveals aspects of genre experimentation with gothic romance as an attempt to break away from traditional writing which was a characteristic of 20th century work. The main conflict in this story is man vs. self. Maxim struggles against admitting to his past mistakes and facing the troubles that come along with it. He attempts to cover up the murder of his first wife, Rebecca, instead of just owning up to his criminal act. The protagonist in this story…

universal application much more confusing and ambiguous. The Formula of Universal law, as previously stated, asks that we “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law” (Kant, 2009, p.421). The maxim is the subjective principle of volition upon which an individual acts. In this instance, the better maxim would be formulated as, “One may deceive, or make a person believe a falsity, in the event that the person does not possess a “right,”…

Universal Law Formulation states: “act only on those maxims by which you can at the same time will to be a universal law. So in order for an act to be moral, it must go through the process of willing. The first step is create a personal maxim. For this case, the personal maxim would be “when I am faced with the decision to save money on a project or do a thorough job, I will always choose to save money”. Then this personal maxim needs to become a general maxim, “when one is faced with the…

Under the situation, I am a poor and uneducated person from Chicago, who trained hard for the only way of success in our life, particularly distance running athletics. I always almost win in particularly distance running and marathon races, so have places but never got a title in major race. In view of this, I have to choose whether take the new drug to win the Chicago Marathon with cash prize of $50,000 and the opportunity of lucrative endorsement of a famous running-shoe company which only…

The first car ride between the narrator and maxim is a drive along the coast, in which both the narrator and maxim get lost in their own thoughts, the narrator in her daydream and maxim in his memories, paying little attention to each other. The narrator fantasises, an embellished sense of reality ‘This car had the wings of Mercury, higher yet we climbed, and dangerously…

1 What does Aristotle mean by the use of ‘example’? Aristotle says that argument by Example has the nature of induction, which is the foundation of reasoning. There are two varieties; one consisting in the mention of actual past facts, the other in the invention of facts by the speaker. Illustrative parallel and the fable are the two varieties (Aristotle, pg. 109-110). An example of using actual past facts would be saying that we must prepare for war against Germany and not let them conquer…