PHI 3382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Critical Philosophy, Categorical Imperative, Freethought
18 Nov 2016
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Moral law: it is there, its has been there, to the extent that we (humans) are reasonable, meaning, we (humans) are able to reason. I am an individual : that tells us nothing, pure individuality tells us nothing, in order to be someone, you have to add particularity. Nationality: but all of those particularities that make us who we are. Categorical imperative: an action that be universalized, applied to everyone and everything in every situation. Morality is somewhat contradictory: we need a world to be not good in order to be good, if it was good already, we wouldn"t need morals. There is a the idea that human dignity implies being treated as and end and not just a mean. It implies a community of reasonable respecting others also as reasonable people: kant asks us to imagine a kingdom of ends. 3rd categorical imperative is dependant on the sense of community.
