#categoricalimperative — Public Fediverse posts

"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end." — Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals #CategoricalImperative

I don't know how you can watch what happened to the United States and think about not voting.

#CategoricalImperative #USPol #Vote

Oi! What the dickens is this thread anyhow?

Well, I'm Knizer, and I started compiling interesting #boston events as a way to self-motivate exploring my beloved and vibrant #NewEngland and called it #bostonWeekend here, because why not share it with my neighbors? Its become my little #hyperlocal content-generating project to help me meet some neighbors (you're all lovely) and gives me something to talk about when I'm bragging about our lower-stress, no advertisement, social media lifestyle here on the #fediverse

No algorithm - you've got to post, boost, or like stuff, its the #CategoricalImperative of the fedi, that, hope, and some trans and/or furry server admins keep this place running.
Anyway, rock on, #Massachusetts and surrounds.
#BostonWeekend 14/x

Kant said:

In arriving at moral judgments one does better to ... follow the strict method and base one’s thinking on the universal formulation of the categorical imperative: Act in accordance with a maxim that can at the same time make itself a universal law.

He went on:

But if one wants to enable the moral law to have access to a mind, it is very useful to bring one and the same action under the ... concepts I have listed, and thus, so far as possible, to bring it nearer to intuition.

#goldenrule #rm3 #kant #categoricalimperative #categorytheory

It's a Universal Property

The main criticism #Kant had of the #GoldenRule is that it relies too heavily on subjective personal inclinations and desires.A #sadist following the Golden Rule could justify inflicting pain on others. The #CategoricalImperative aims to be an objective, universally binding principle based on reason alone, not contingent on individuals' wants.
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The #categoricalimperative vs The #goldenrule

https://code.whatever.social/exchange/philosophy/questions/15927/the-categorical-imperative-vs-the-golden-rule

#IThought_Could Act only according to that maxim whereby I can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. But it’s harder than it looks.

#HashtagGames
#Kant
#CategoricalImperative

@LALegault

Usually people tell me that the monetary value they add to Twitter (and hence to Elon Musk's wallet) by using the service is negligibly small, so they don't feel bad about staying on Twitter.

Unfortunately, I build my ethics around the categorical imperative, which is a royal pain in the ass, but has the advantage of being the only internally consistent moral philosophy I've ever encountered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

#twitter #ethics #categoricalImperative

Now that's ONE way to test the universalizability of the maxims under which people operate! #Kantianism #CategoricalImperative

#kant #categoricalimperative #philosophy #meme #memes #mamema

Philosophy teachers, how do you explain to your students the logic behind the different formulations of Kant's categorical imperative?

Usually I focus on the first and the second formulations : the universalizability principle and the inherent dignity of every person.

How do you explain why there are different formulations? What logical structure do you use to go beyond simple enumeration?

@philosophy #Philosophy
#Kant
#KantianEthics
#CategoricalImperative
#PhilosophyTeachers
#Philodons

#Deontology and #HumanRights with #Philosopher #SimonBlackburn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ve3n3uIL4&ab_channel=NortheasternUniversityLondon

#Philosophy #Utilitarianism #IndirectUtilitarianism #Consequentialism #CategoricalImperative #Mill #JohnStuartMill #JSM #Kant #ImmanuelKant #Liberalism #Economics #Ethics #MoralPhilosophy