PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Immanuel Kant, Hypothetical Imperative, Categorical Imperative

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Omid Payrow Shabani

Document Summary

The object of inquiry in some disciplines live morality and founded on the concept of duty. A general tendency that denies the value of theory for such endeavors. Kant proposes to examine the relation of theory to practice in three separate areas: In morality in general with regard to the welfare of each individual man. In politics in regard to the welfare of states. In cosmopolitan sphere or international law with regard to the welfare of the human species. On the relationship of theory to the practice in morality in general. Moral maxim is constructed by abstracting from particular considerations so to obtain a maxim consent with the universal law of reason or the concept of duty. Duty is necessity of acting out of reverence for law. Moral maxims categorical imperatives: act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.