PHIL 1091 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Weapon, Hypothetical Imperative, Immanuel Kant
14 Apr 2016
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Intellectual talents not always good (put them to bad uses: good will is the only thing that is good without qualifications, ex. Why does reason govern the will: self preservation, wrong instinct would be better suited, happiness, wrong the rational pursuit of happiness often leads us further from it, teaching the will what is good. I ought to act only on that maxim that the will could be a universal law: everyone has to follow it, reason you act is reason everyone can act on it. If people never pay back people will stop lending money: contradiction #2: promise implies the intent to fulfill it but here there is no such intent, ex. No: we are given talents to improve our lives but here i am not willing an improved life, ex. 1 and 3 are self regarding duties: ex. 2 and 4 are other regarding duties: ex. 1 and 2 are perfect/rigorous duties: contradiction in the maxim itself: ex.
