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Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is There a Universal Law?

If willing is the form of law itself, then that means, by willing, we are implicitly law makers. And this is what this whole universality thing is about. This is why we would care if our maxim could be universalizable. Because whenever decide to do something, i'm positing, by my action, by my decision, that it is the right thing for everybody to do. I am willing, excluding yoursel. Yes. That's one way of thinking about it. In the kingdom of ends, everything has either value or dignity. So in so far as you treat human beings as valuable rather than dignified, you're not doing the right thing. It just doesn't

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