...categorical imperative issued by our practical reason, which bids us to act solely on that maxim whereby we can at the same time will that it should become a universal law, and forbids us to allow any other influence to interfere with our action. This imperative, he...

...the categorical imperative becomes a contradiction in terms. To act only on that maxim, whereby we can at the same time will that it should become a universal law, is impossible. How can there be a universal law since there is no universal man? An ethical maxim...

...another. CHAPTER XIV THE FORMULA OF UNIVERSAL LAW §1. Formula I. 'Act only on that maxim theough which you can at the same time will that it should become a unioersal law.'1 This injunction is already familiar to us. We found its though in a negative form....

...Kant's.2 That is, if it is permissible to interpret Kant's principle 'Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law' as 'Act only on that maxim which you as a humane and benevolent person would like to see established...

...first formulation, the categorical imperative reads [98, p. 88] : "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." This formulation contains the following elements: i. The specification of an input set for the...

...universalized.22 Kant defines the universalization norm as follows: "Act only on the maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." In other words, ethical decision making should be judged on the basis of the extent to which...

...Ethics (4th ed., 1994) 37 M Kant's categorical imperative states: "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." It is a rational being's fidelity to this, according to Kant, that entities a person to be accorded...

...patient's reasons for action by checking whether patients are acting only on the maxim through which they can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. The question of who should make; these kinds of assessments and whose conception of goodness will...

...imperative as commanding simply that one's maxims conform to the idea of universal law: "Act only on that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it become a universal law" (G 4:421). He then introduces a variant, the formula of the universal law of...

...Kant (1724-1804) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). The Kantian Categorical Imperative, "Act only on that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it be a universal law of nature," and Mill's Utilitarian Greatest Happiness Principle, "Act so as bring...