
Kant and Freedom
Why Theory
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The Good Place
The premise of the show is four people end up in heaven, which is called the good place because of good things they did on earth. But actually it turns out they're not good people and they're there by accident. The whole point of the series is that one of the people who ends up in the good place, who shouldn't be there for reasons, is a moral philosopher. He's always on about Kant. And what he is insistent upon ... you can't just start doing things because you know it's going to earn you points in the afterlife. That can't be it. There has to be something pure of intent. So following categorical rather than hypothetical imperatives,
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