...translates. With this reading, it is the conformity that presents the imperative as necessary.] namely this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then...

...translates. With this reading, it is the conformity that presents the imperative as necessary.] namely this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then...

...conception, we may instance among modern forms the one which it took in the mind of Kant. His rule — " Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same...time will that it should become a universal law," is, indeed, an allotropic form of the Christian rule. The suggestion that every other mau must be imagined...

...conformity that presents the imperative as necessary.] N namely this : Act only on that maxim whereby than canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then...

...translation). Here Kant first says " There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now, if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle we...

...translation). Here Kant first says " There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now, if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle we...

...that must not be the motive. Kant holds that there is but one categorical imperative, namely this : " Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law."38 *• Types of Kthicnl Theory, Vol. IF. p. 85. 8'Scieuce of Kthics. By Leslie Stephens, p. 170....

...be the consequences if acts of this kind were general. The so-called Categorical Imperative of Kant ('Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become law universal ') is merely an unqualified statement of this principle. The necessary qualifications...

...else. It does not say what you ought ; for if it did, it would not be categorical. Kant's law is this: "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the...same time will that it should become a universal law ; " or, " Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature."...

...be the consequences if acts of this kind were general. The so-called Categorical Imperative of Kant ('Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become law universal') is merely an unqualified statement of this principle. The necessary qualifications...