Categorical imperative
Posted by: Stefan Pernar in Uncategorized, tags: categorical imperative, Kant, rational morality8 hours of research later and sooner than I thought I am getting closer to the solution. Turns out that Immanuel Kant had some deep insights into morality in his time. Consider his rather famous categorical imperative:
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
That is what a rational morality would have to be grounded in. Unfortunately however, Kant did not provide such a maxim that would satisfy his imperative. Intuitively and based on previous rational analysis I shall assume the following maxim as basis for rational morality:
Ensure continued co-existence
Exploring the concept of rational morality further would clearly break the intended scope of Jame5 and thus I will continue my exploration of the issue on rationalmorality.info
Hope to see you there. This blog will remain active for Jame5 related updates.
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November 15th, 2007 at 3:35 am
[...] the development and communication of a morality grounded in rationality. As basis the maxim ‘ensure continued co-existence‘ is applied, assuming it satisfies Kant’s categorical imperative. The stated end goal [...]
November 15th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
[...] rational. In such a reality all agents will adopt the rationally implicit utility function ‘ensure continued co-existence‘ as their explicit utility function Fe(i). All agents would use the resources at their [...]
January 17th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
[...] however the maxim of ensure continued co-existence for Kant’s categorical imperative, Kant and Schopenhauer can be reconciled quite beautifully [...]
June 21st, 2009 at 5:59 pm
[...] exact spot where Rand looses me. It is not surprising that since the second postulate contradicts my own concepts of morality as well as the centrality of compassion in it, I was keen to disprove selfishness as virtue, and [...]
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 am
Сильно:..Не думал +10
November 24th, 2009 at 12:38 am
[...] Rand fails to realize, is that Kant’s categorical imperative effectively forces oneself to be non self contradicting in ones moral action and as a result being perfectly in line with her ideal of reason. At the same time, Kant’s [...]