PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Categorical Imperative
5 Jan 2021
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Ci: universal law formulation followed universal law has enough self control to ask whether such an action is morally right. Maxim: if i can commit adultery without being caught, i will do so. Moral rules (laws) are supposed to be universal. If a maxim cannot be universalized, it is not a genuine rule and so should not be. I ought never to act except in such a way that i can also will that my act should become a. A man has an opportunity to cheat on his wife with very little risk of being caught. If everyone made it their policy to commit adultery there would be no adultery. The maxim which licenses adultery negated itself. Ci maxim: if i can steal without being caught, i will do so. If everyone made it their policy to commit adultery, there would be no marriages. If there were no marriages, there would not be adultery.
