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A Kantian Guide to Life

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Kant's Universal Law

Kant says that we should always act on maxims that we can will to be a universal law. To act well is to act on principles that are kind of rationally defensible in a community of rational agents. And it doesn't depend on what we want or what we care about, but on how we sort of think about ourselves as rational beings.

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