A Challenge to the Categorical Imperative
8 Pages Posted: 14 May 2011 Last revised: 27 Apr 2020
Date Written: May 12, 2011
Abstract
In this paper I am excogitating the Categorical Imperative (CI) procedure by questioning whether its principle has been created with profound knowledge of a society and of the human nature as well. I point out that the second universalization premise of the CI procedure is extremely exorbitant and far from the human's consciousness by virtue of which a mind makes up its decisions. Furthermore, the perception of the universal principle is my primary target in the process of disproving the viability of the CI procedure. I make a claim that Kant made a mistake in allowing one agent to elect a maxim of an act into the universal law and that he severely abused the human nature by separating the personality of an agent from her role in a society. By setting up these refutations, I hope to infer a relatively strong conclusion that Kant’s formulation of the CI procedure is perplexed in nature and requires reconciliation.
Keywords: morality, maxim, imperative, categorical imperative, Kant, philosophy, moral
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