
Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Utilitarianism and Kant's Universalism
The modern contians, you'll really use this idea of an end in yourself to focus on individual rights. And there's something intuitively advantageous about this over some of the utilitarian things that we thought, if it'll make a thousand people happy, then we should torture and kill one person or something. If your cantian formula gives you a completely evil thing, like, ohya, you should to tell the truth to the notsy if it tells you something just obviously wrong. A good application for is is a dumb one. Everybody can't get in my car, bcause in we'd all be stuck, or whatever.
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