Episode #059 ... Kant pt. 4 - Categorical Trolley Cars
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Kant's Categorical Imperative
Kant says there is only a single categorical imperative, and it is this act only on that maxim through which you can. The world would be an ocean of coke bottles everywhere if seven billion people just left their trash wherever they were when they got done using it. If we existed in a world where all any one ever did was lie, then everyone would always know that they were being lied to,. But that's kind of the point of a lie, right, to deceive people. So logically, it would be pointless, nonw you contrast that with the world when everybody always told the truth - no logical contradiction.
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