By Paul Guyer
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Kant's basis of the Metaphysics of Morals is among the most vital works in smooth ethical philosophy. This number of essays, the 1st of its variety in approximately thirty years, introduces the reader to a few of an important reviews of the e-book from the previous 20 years, prepared within the kind of a collective commentary.
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G,438) On this account the conception of human beings as autonomous legislators who are members of a kingdom of ends or a community of such legislators would make the categorical imperative possible by introducing a conception of ourselves and our fellow human beings as objects worthy of the special kind of respect that can only be shown through adherence to the categorical imperative in either of its previous formulations. Again, this is an important issue discussed in the last two essays of part Ill.
Or is a method something every normal adult uses, even if she is not aware of it as such and could not explicitly formulate it? If Sidgwick meant the latter, as I think he did, then it is wonh noting that he simply took it for granted that everyone is in possession of some adequate method or other. I shall try to show that this now common position emerged from two opposed responses to modern natural law theory. One was an attempt to preserve its essential understanding of morality; the other 3 4 ].
Kant famously divides this question into two: in some cases, the necessary test is whether there is consistency in the conception of a maxim, or whether "a maxim [can] even be thought without contradiction"; in other cases, the question is not about the consistency of the conception of a particular proposed course of action, but whether it is possible "to will that [the] maxims be raised to the universality of a law of nature" (G, 424). Kant's idea is that in the first case, a proposed maxim will be internally inconsistent-and therefore incompatible with the concept of rational agency-if actually acting on that maxim would be incompatible with the universalization of the maxim.