I feel that morals are grounded in ethics, — Brett
My understanding of the CI is "do any action if and only if you think everyone in the world would not disbenefit from it, even if all and everyone did the same action."
Please agree with me if you find my quote acceptable, or true. If this is not acceptable, and not true, please respond with your working definition of CI written in your response here. — god must be atheist
This somehow expresses a disagreement of how I worded CI.Kant doesn't talk about benefits or disbenefits when establishing the groundwork for the CI. And it's also important to consider that the CI is not a tool to judge outward actions.
There are several layers to analysis within the CI. The question of whether a maxim includes an implicit or explicit contradiction, i.e. whether it can theoretically be universalised, and the question of whether you would want it to be universalised.
Only the second part is directly reminiscent of the golden rule, and the conceptual basis is different. — Echarmion
I'm in agreement with you regarding the categorical imperative - it basically says that if the answer to "what if everybody did x (an act)?" is something odd/strange/absurd in some sense then x is wrong and if the answer is not like that then it's right. — TheMadFool
But... but, you refrained from actually giving your wording of it. — god must be atheist
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
The distinction between morals and ethics is ill-conceived. They are both one in the same thing. — creativesoul
We are not free, — Mww
Commands of reason inform as to what an act ought to be, but has no power to force the act to be done. — Mww
We make moral choices because our very nature imbues us with moral agency, plain and simple. — Mww
We make wrong moral choices because we, as humans, are susceptible to a plethora of opposing interests, desires, wants and needs. — Mww
Really? I didn't expect that! Great! I would've liked to hear your side of the story though. — TheMadFool
I think that the more all-encompassing term for weighing up the personal and the universal, and the tensions between the two is the term ethics. — Jack Cummins
I still do not understand your concern about ideology over morality . If anything I would say that the possible problem with ideology over morality is that it is abstract and avoids details and particulars. — Jack Cummins
In the way which you speak of ideology you could view ideology and the Kantian system of view. — Jack Cummins
Commands of reason inform as to what an act ought to be, but has no power to force the act to be done.
— Mww
So what determines the action? — Brett
We can even abdicate any responsibility if we choose to. — Brett
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law. — Echarmion
making them fail the claim that they are both universal laws. — god must be atheist
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law. — Echarmion
c.i. Is never claimed to be a universal law — Mww
GR should never be claimed, logically, as a universal law; a rule is never a law nor universal. It isn’t, for good reason, called the golden law. — Mww
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