• FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    This is what I mean when I say Kant (and other enlightenment era thinkers) obsession with some universal moral rules followed by purely rational humans is some dude’s fantasy who never has understood how normal people work.

    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I was about to defend him but after refreshing my memory and reading about the Categorical Imperative I think you’re absolutely right.

      • zzx@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        What’s that? I liked the ideas in the first half of “a critique of pure reason”

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          3 days ago

          “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

          It’s basic and kinda neat as a personal moral philosophy.