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Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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What if Everybody Shouldn't Lies?

Ladidadita: There's a contradiction between this idea of thinking that you should l and then the sort of inefficacy of it in this world in which everyone does lie. Lying would be so frequent that your deception couldn't work anyway, she says. But we know every time somebody's in extreme circumstances, they're going to lie - but still people mostly tell the truth because they're not in those circumstances. She believes kant did not believe that his categorical imperative could deduct out from that a bunch of specific rules for action or behaviour. "I'm not completely sure what he was trying to say about morals," she adds. 'This was some secondary sources and he

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