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A Kantian Guide to Life

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

The Categorical Imperative

Kant's idea of freedom is kind of in the same vein. This idea that I have this power of choice, but I can use it well or badly to use it badly is to use it in ways that don't really reflect my nature and my capacities as a rational being. And so one of the ways we can see this is like when we all procrastinate - you're still doing it. To choose wisely is to choose an act on principles that are rationally defensible in our own eyes and the eyes of others.

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